Hello, again forum! I posted 4 months ago because I was having issues with else externals, which I was able to solve by building the latest version of PD.
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14839/else-externals-not-working-on-raspberry-pi-4b-running-pd-0-51-4

Now I am running into problems again. I have a new Raspberry Pi 5 running Debian GNU/Linux 12. I have built PD 0.55-1 and it is running successfully, but when I search for else externals library in deken is get the following:

"else": Found 0 usable packages (of 5 packages in total).
It appears that there are no matching packages for your architecture.

I looked on the github page for else and it says that "This version of ELSE needs Pd 0.55-1 or above.", which is the version I have.

I wonder if anyone can provide some advice? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. The only thing that is different from 4 months ago when I solved this problem is that I'm now using a pi 5?

Thanks!

@porres you may be able to shed some light on this? Thanks in advance!

Aparently, there are no binaries for the architecture of Pi 5, which is different than Pi 3 (and I think 4 too). You can try and get the sources and build it yourself. In deken, go to Edit -> Preferences, and untick "Hide foreign architectures", to get all the results when you search for a package. One of the else packages should contain the sources and instructions on how to build it.

Edit: I couldn't find the sources in deken, so you could try GitHub here https://github.com/porres/pd-else

Thanks @alexandros

I haven't built an externals library before, but I shall give it a shot!

Any other advice gratefully received

Unfortunately we are having issues with a couple of new externals when building for the raspberry pi. This happened with the latest update (RC13). @timothyschoen was working on this.

You should be able to build most of objects of RC12 more easily I guess. It uses the old pd-lib-builder method which might be easier as well.

Unfortunately I just have a mac and no VMs to build things :/ I always need the help of a pi user to build this

Hi @porres

Thanks for this info. I would volunteer my help but I don't think I have the experience yet. I'm not actually sure where to start, although I did find an old youtube tutorial detailing the pd-lib-builder compiling process: