[PD-dev] Compiling externals for Windows

[Roman Haefeli]

Thanks for sharing your workflows.

I'll try what you people are doing and see how far I come, though I
somewhat sympathize with the idea of doing all in Debian (without
wine/Windows VM). But let's try the established paths first.

Roman
 

On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 09:46 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > http://mccormick.cx/
> > 
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