[fluid-dev] Building libfluidsynth to include in python package

[Marc Evanstein]

Hi all,

I've been building a python framework for algorithmic composition, and 
it uses fluidsynth via a slightly tweaked version of the pyfluidsynth 
bindings. I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for users to install 
my framework (via python's pip package manager) and get it up and 
running (on mac, windows, and linux).

I believe the easiest thing for users would be if, especially on windows 
and macos, the fluidsynth dll or dylib is contained within and 
downloaded alongside the python package. So this means that I would need 
a standalone version of libfluidsynth that is bundled along with its 
dependencies. (Both a dylib for macos and a dll for windows.)

How would I go about getting / creating these? Am I going about this in 
the right way?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Marc