[PD-dev] Compiling externals for Windows

[Miller Puckette]

I compile externs both in mingw and in Microsoft Visual C running under
wine (so both from linux).  I keep a Windows XP machine around and crank it
up to test things when I put out Pd releases, but all eh compiling happens
in linux, and the first round of testing is under wine, which allows me to 
catch most problems without having to turn on Windows.  (BTW my Windows
machine is behind a firewall and has no name server configured in an
attempt to keep whatever malware it's running from damaging anything.
I recommend never putting a Windows machine where it can access the internet.)

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:17:03PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21/06/15 18:13, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > The new deken plugin makes me want to compile externals for Windows.
> 
> Any compiles and testing you can do with Deken on Windows is much
> appreciated, thank you so much.
> 
> > What are people using? Are you compiling directly on Windows or are you
> > cross-compiling from Linux? Are you going with the tool chain from your
> > Distro or are you downloading the highest and latest manually?
> 
> So far in my limited experiments have been to upload existing externals
> from the last good build of the old Pd-extended binaries packages:
> 
> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2013-08-08/
> 
> And then test them with Wine because my Windows XP virtualbox is doing
> the same thing you reported yours was doing in 2011 here:
> 
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-11/092698.html
> 
> If you have a chance to try out the 'freeverb~' external I uploaded on a
> Pd-vanilla 0.46 from Miller and to let me know if that works for you on
> Windows that would be very useful. If it works I'll upload more of the
> old Pd-extended externals binaries.
> 
> Once we have a good set of externals live I guess it would make sense to
> tentatively let people on the Pd-list know about this method of
> obtaining externals.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris.
> 
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