<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:47 PM, chris clepper wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 4/25/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Hans-Christoph Steiner</B> <<A href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10ad050b5717ebcf_0"></SPAN>Is a MinGW build possible? Or does VS.net provide something needed that MinGW doesn't? It shouldn't be too hard to do.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>Possible or not it doesn't solve the issues at hand in any way. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That DLL would still be required even when its compiled with MinGW?<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>An easy solution for that DLL is to have it included in the Pd-extended installer. Its already handling a number of DLLs and its quite trivial to add another. packages/win32_inno/Makefile could copy the DLL from %SystemRoom%\system32, if its there, then the installer package will test if its installer a newer version of the that DLL, then install it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I would really like to have Pd-extended build Gem from source, rather than using binaries. That means using MinGW on Windows...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">____________________________________________________________________________</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There is no way to peace, peace is the way.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN></SPAN>-A.J. Muste</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>