Re: [fluid-dev] Pending FluidSynth 1.1.0 release

[josh]

Hello Pedro,

Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <address@hidden>:
> On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, address@hidden wrote:
> > It seems like along with this next release, it should be pretty simple
> > to package up a Windows binary .zip file.  This would include all the
> > required libraries.  Anyone know how to make a windows installer .exe?
>
> I've made several windows installers for QSynth releases using NSIS,  
>  including
> FluidSynth and other dependencies. Here is the source code:
> http://qsynth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/qsynth/trunk/win32/setup.nsi
>
> NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page


I like the fact that it is an open source installer.  At a glance from  
that .nsi file it expects dependencies like Jack and FluidSynth to be  
installed separately?  I noticed in particular that your home  
directory is hard coded into FLUIDSYNTHDIR.  I wonder how FluidSynth  
should be distributed, whether it should include all dependencies as  
libs that just get installed in it's application directory or not.  It  
seems the most straight forward to just bundle the dependencies with  
it (at least glib and libsndfile).  But I could see it using an  
externally installed Jackdmp.


> This utility (Dependency Walker) may be handy to verify or diagnose   
> dependency
> problems: http://www.dependencywalker.com/
>
> Regards,
> Pedro

Regards,
Josh