Re: [fluid-dev] Windows build

[O. P. Martin]

Hi, Josh,

Thank you for your help.

Please forgive me for asking stupid questions.

OK, in anticipation of your upcoming work, I have installed Eclipse +
CDT (europa) and the MinGW tool chain on my XP.  So I
guess you could say I am ready when you are.

I am using MinGW rather than Cygwin because I want to use only
libraries that have Lgpl or better licensing, and my understanding is
that Cygwin uses a compatibility layer to implement access to libc
which forces Gpl compliance on any code that links to it.

Does fluid require libc?  If it doesn't...

Unfortunately, this is my first attempt to build an (multi-platform)
open source library (that was not already to go for my compiler...).  I
do not know what I am doing.  Maybe that's part of the problem ;-)  If
someone on the web has a quick tutorial on standard practices, that
might help.

I think i still have to figure out how to use msys...  persistence will pay 
off...

From the tuning thread, my question would be, does Fluidsynth
and/or QSynth support the Midi Tuning Standard?

http://www.midi.org/about-midi/tuning_extens.shtml

A couple more questions that may or may not be impertinent:

I am curious if Fluid supports or if there are plans to
support the SFZ font file format in addition to SF2.

Are there any plans for a VST?

Thank you for your patience.

May the Lord bless you,
Philip





----- Original Message ----
From: Josh Green <address@hidden>
To: Rui Nuno Capela <address@hidden>
Cc: O. P. Martin <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:45:34 PM
Subject: Re: [fluid-dev] Windows build

Hey Rui,

Thanks for the info :)  I've suspected it was easy, but just have never
gotten around to it.  Good to know.

Cheers!
    Josh

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 17:07 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Josh Green wrote:
> > Hello Philip,
> > 
> > I've been meaning to get a build environment working on my system to
> > make regular FluidSynth windows binary releases, but still have not
> > gotten around to it.  I'd like to use cygwin, so that the releases are
> > more "free" (i.e., built by a free compiler).
> > 
> > It sounds like __int64 should be used instead of "long long" on
> > Windows.  I don't know if that is in general or just with VC6.
> > 
> > It sounds as if your Ubuntu is a bit outdated, otherwise I'd just say
> > run "sudo apt-get install fluidsynth".  It will likely still build
> > without problems though, provided you have a development environment
> > properly setup "sudo apt-get build-essential" I believe.  Just download
> > the source tarball and "./configure && make && sudo make install".
> > 
> > Sorry I can't be of more help at this point.  I've been really busy
> > lately and have not had much time to work on FluidSynth or my other
> > projects for that matter.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> >     Josh Green
> > 
> 
> i've been able to build fluidsynth on windows with the mingw/msys 
> combination. it's so easy that i can't really remember if there was any 
> glitch...ah, iirc i was missing some directsound related header (which 
> isn't bundled by mingw, you'll have to get it somewhere else:)
> 
> just follow the same ./configure && make and you're done ;)
> 
> byee