Is there a way to export a .pd into a self-contained program (.exe, .dmg, etc)?

"Make app from patch" etc. in file menu.

I don't have that option under my file menu. I'm running windows 7 and as far as I understand thats an OSX thing.
I looked around some other posts regarding "make app from patch" and they all seemed to say that the function is broken somehow.
I've only been using PD for a couple weeks, so I'm not very knowledgeable yet.

I'm not trying to be smart, but Pd (in my own experience) runs a lot better on OS X, so maybe dual booting your machine may be an option? Just a thought.

Your best bet is to create a .bat file that loads your patch and launches pd without a gui. If you try running pd -h in the command line you can get a list of various startup options including nogui. Also, in my experience with pd: Linux>Windows>OSX. Seriously, pd-extended crashes all the time on OSX.

That's interesting. I haven't had any problems with Pd-extended on OSX at all, and found it to be unreliable on Windows. I haven't tried it on Linux. I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve, spec, etc?

Well, my PD OSX experience is primarily limited to using school computers which despite having deep freeze installed might be more crash prone than an average mac, but even when using a friend's macbook pro the graphics engine has been extremely laggy. Also I can get better latency using the linux OSS audio driver on a $300 dell laptop than I can on almost any mac or windows machine I have used.

Thanks, guys. I'll try writing that batch in my next spare time.

So I tried the make app feature. It seems to open another instance of Pd and run the app in it. So I don't really see the point... Will this work on a machine without Pd installed?

Or is the app feature kind of a Pd bundle or something?

Been reading the PD mailing list. Apparently there's some performance issue with PD (exended or not) running on OS X with the internal soundcard.