Sorry to ask but......

Has anyone found a darwin port of the vst~ external, or compiled one themselves?

t'would be nice to av

Has anyone written an external for using osx AU's in PD?
It would really make my day if anyone out there knows how to do this....

hans' HID works very well, used it a while back, recommended.

just every now and then it would be handy....

oneshot

send a bang, then blocks until reset

its in the GEM lib

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... Oh, I forgot, it helps if you have the OSX dev tools installed too, must be some terminal shit that requires the extra libraries.

You need tcltk.

very true...

Well, running VST isn't actually a problem on OSX, apart from in LOGIC, That I agree was a bloody minded attempt for apple to abuse it's ownership of emagic and jump start a new format.
But, as a format AU is actually much better in the long term. The main difference to me is that a VST effect is never truly mono, when you add a vst effect to a mono channel its just becoming mono again at its output stage, so in effect (no pun intended) it is processing all mono sources twice, which is a waste of cpu time for whenever you are dealing with mono inputs. If you take a look at the difference in CPU load in Logic when using a mono pluggin compared to a stereo one it is fairly big now, whereas in the old logic the difference between mono and stereo VST's was quite minimal.

There have been a few slightly messed up osx installers for pd, I strongly recomend deleting all your pd and tclk stuff and finding another installer. One problem I came across was the installer making 2 instances of the "wish" app. This caused my mac to lose all my audio ins and outs... including the internal speakers!!!
If this happens to you the only way I found to sort it out was to run a system update from the OSX update panel. It doesn't seem to matter what you install as long as it requires a system restart. I am assuming this zaps your PRAM and gets core to re-initialize itself. I would point you in the direction of a good installer package, but I can't for the life of me remember what one worked in the end. There is one out there though, and it runs on my 500mhz laptop very well now.