[PD-dev] windows compiling/linking problem

carmen ix at replic.net
Thu Nov 17 10:35:15 CET 2005


On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:33:10PM +0000, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> hi georg,
> 
> > 1)
> > the soundfiler uses open_soundfile from d_soundfile.c to open a file.
> > this function is not part of the public interface of pd - in linux I
> > can forward declare it and I can use it - in windows I always get an 
> > unresolved external ...
> > ... is there any way to link it so that I can use this in win like in 
> > linux ?
> 
> no, there is no way that i know of ...

the main difference is just that linux doesnt care about resolving symbols at compile time, where windows does. so if you add pd.dll (mingw) or pd.lib (msvc) to linker arguments it should work. and make sure theres no 'static' preceding the definition of the function..

> hm ... why are you using pd's soundfile functions in the first place?
> libsndfile provides a much more powerful wave file parser than pd ...
> after using it for my sndfiler, i don't want to use anything else any
> more ...

true, and libsndfile compiles in MinGW at least, used it for readanysf~..




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