[PD-dev] Compiling iemnet on Windows XP

[Roman Haefeli]

On Don, 2015-06-25 at 19:32 +0200, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
> Hi Roman,
> 
> > Hey
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile iemnet on Windows XP 32-bit with mingw-w64 (using
> > the mingw32-make command). I'm stuck at:
> > 
> > ---
> > iemnet_notify.o: In function `pollfun':
> > c:\puredata\pd-iemnet/iemnet_notify.c:122: undefined reference to `read'
> > iemnet_notify.o: In function `iemnet__notify':
> > c:\puredata\pd-iemnet/iemnet_notify.c:64: undefined reference to `write'
> > iemnet_notify.o: In function `iemnet__notify_create':
> > c:\puredata\pd-iemnet/iemnet_notify.c:147: undefined reference to `pipe'
> > collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > makefile:267: recipe for target 'libiemnet.dll' failed
> > mingw32-make: *** [libiemnet.dll] Error 1
> > ---
> > 
> > Apparently, something is missing. Hints?
> 
> While testing the Makefile.pdlibbuilder, I found that iemnet depends on
> a pipe library, which appeared not to be supported by MinGW. CygWin is
> roumoured to support it, but I never tried this.

Thanks for the hint. According to IOhannes in #dataflow, iemnet switched
to using pipes at some point, so I tried a checkout from 2012 and it
compiled fine.

Roman