Re: [fluid-dev] More commits (lots of windows fixes)

[David Henningsson]

address@hidden wrote:
> Here is some status on my recent commits.
>
> I spent a good portion of the weekend building FluidSynth using MinGW 
> and fixing bugs on Windows.  All MIDI drivers should support SYSEX at 
> this point.  In addition, the TCP/IP FluidSynth shell server works now 
> on Windows.

Great, thanks for the work :-)

> One issue I have run into with the shell server though, is that it uses 
> LF for line termination.  This seems to be contrary to the Telnet 
> standard (should be CR LF). I'm reluctant to change it though, since
> this could potentially break backwards compatibility with clients which 
> use FluidSynth in this fashion.  It means that Windows telnet, and 
> likely other telnet clients, aren't as useful as they could be.  It 
> would be nice to just switch to using CR LF for TCP/IP shell access 
> though.  Any opinions on that?

Well, can't we just chop off any CR if we find one, at the end of each command? Then we would 
support both LF and CR LF as line terminators?

> I should probably test building FluidSynth in VC or some other non GCC
> compiler.  I think there are probably still some issues there, but its
> nice to have it building with MinGW!  I'll post some build directions on
> the FluidSynth Wiki at some point soon.

I remember Pedro was compiling it with VC2005/2008(?) and even had a pointer to where you could 
download that compiler for free.

// David