Re: [fluid-dev] FluidSynth and glib

[Chris Robinson]

On 01/13/2016 08:47 AM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> glib isn't actually that huge, and Fluidsynth puts it to good use.
> Cross-platform threading is hard. I'm writing an application that
> depends on Fluidsynth, and it wasn't really a program.

It's not too difficult to wrap up pthreads and Win32 threads into a 
common API. C11 also includes a threading API.

The problem with glib is that it's a big pain for me to use on Windows. 
At least, last I looked there was no prebuilt libs and headers that I 
could drop into my (cross-)compiler, and building it required building a 
number of dependencies that were difficult to get set up. Things I'd 
need to do for both 32-bit and 64-bit targets. And when I do, it leaves 
me with more DLLs to keep track of.

I really like using FluidSynth in my projects, on Linux, but the 
problems with glib on Windows has been a big barrier to me using and 
recommending it more broadly. Even if I get it working, it will be just 
as big of a problem for anyone else that wants to build my projects on 
Windows.