Hello all,

I just compiled Pd vanilla 0.46.5 using:

$ make -f makefile.gnu
$ sudo make -f makefile.gnu install

Everything went fine, but I can't make it work with JACK. I tried starting it using flags pd -rt -jack, but it doesn't recognize -jack. I had the same problem when I compiled vanilla 0.45.4 previously today. So do I need to do anything else in order to use JACK?

Thanks a lot,
Gilberto

Did you configure it to compile with Jack?
./configure --enable-jack should do it, taken you have jack properly installed..
after that you can make and make install

Hi Gilberto, I just have -rt and -alsamidi as startup flags. I just start Qjackctl first and than pd. The first time you have to tell pd you wanna use jack in the media menu I guess. In my case pd automatically connects to the system inputs&outputs but as for the jack autostart, you can set all this stuff in the jack settings menu... Maybe you have to manually connect objects in the jack control panel

Thanks for the answers, guys.

@alexandros Well, I didn't do that because as far as I understood there were two methods of installing Pd. The first is via:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --enable-jack
$ make

Which is giving me an error: ./autogen.sh: 22: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found

Thus I used the second method (I also found a thread in which Miller recommends it as the easiest one for some Linux user) and it has nothing about enabling JACK:

$ make -f makefile.gnu
$ sudo make -f makefile.gnu install

This info is from the INSTALL.txt file.

@alistair_blunt I tried that but I don't have a JACK option in the media menu, only OSS and ALSA

@gsagostinho said:

Which is giving me an error: ./autogen.sh: 22: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found

You need to install autoconf:
sudo apt-get install autoconf

As @alexandros said, you then need to enable -jack (be sure to install the development header):
./configure --enable-jack

Cheers~

@EEight thanks a lot for the help, I really appreciate it. But still no cake for me, after installing autoconf and running ./autogen.sh, I get:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4/generated -I m4 --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory

EDIT: I managed to install it using the makefile.gnu method via:

$ cd src
$ make -f makefile.gnu JACK=true
$ sudo make -f makefile.gnu install

The problem now is that when I try to run pd via pd -rt -jack, it does not open and I get the message Segmentation fault in the terminal...

@gsagostinho said:

Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326

Sorry I should have told you to also install:
sudo apt-get install automake

Also on Linux when trying to build from source, you can install a meta-package (at least on ubuntu/debian) called build-essantial:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Cheers~

@EEight Thanks again for the help (and the patience). Ok, so now I have both automake and autoconf, but running the autogen.sh gives me now the following error:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4/generated -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory portaudio to autoreconf
autoreconf: Entering directory `portaudio'
autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
autoreconf: configure.in: subdirectory bindings/cpp not present
autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.in:104: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
          If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
          See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:105: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Any ideas?

@gsagostinho

Ok one more:
sudo apt-get install libtool

Also can you try to redownload Pd vanilla 0.46.5 and start fresh?

Cheers~

@EEight Ok, started fresh and now the compilation seems to have been successful, and after make I assume pd would be installed, correct? The thing is I can't find it anywhere where I would expect, and now when I type pd -rt -jack it opens my pd-extended install (I'd like to have both side by side).

@gsagostinho you're getting close yes, after doing make, you can find pd in the src/bin I think, but it will not launch correctly afaik. you can install it in a specific location by doing:

./configure --prefix /home/yourusername/pdvanilla --enable-jack
make
make install
cd /home/yourusername/pdvanilla/bin
./pd -rt -jack

Cheers~

@EEight Fantastic!! I found out what was the problem I was having with make install: I was inside a folder that contained a space in the name, and that was being the problem. I started all over again in a "Linux-friendly" folder and all went fine.

And one more thing: after installing it at /home/yourusername/pdvanilla, the correct way of executing it for me is: ~/pdvanilla/lib/pd/bin/pd -rt -jack

Take care and thank you so much!!
Gilberto