[PD] Please explain Windows compiling once and for all!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Mark Polesky wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm trying not to get frustrated, seeing how posts like this one (on
>> compiling externals for Windows) are either ignored or answered way
>> too cryptically:
>>
>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-06/051182.html
> I guess they get answered over and over again and then forgotten over
> and over again.

Yes, this is sad but true.  It would be nice to have all this  
information gathered into the docs wiki so it would be easy to find.

http://puredata.org/docs/

Please, everyone, feel free to add to this section of the website.   
Don't worry too much about how it looks, think wiki style.  It's  
better to have messy or incomplete info than none at all.

.hc

>>
>> I posted a similar question to the "PURE DATA forum~" a few days ago,
>> and so far it too has gone unanswered:
>>
>> http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1029-problem-compiling-external- 
>> windows
>>
>> Is compiling an external for Windows so mysterious that no one knows
>> how to do it? The responses that I've seen so far usually amount to
>> "well this is how it's done on linux, try changing this to that and
>> maybe it'll work". The famous external tutorial (
>> http://iem.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/ ) looks very interesting, but it
>> does me no good without knowing how to get from .c to .pd ...
> There really should be a section in that HOWTO for compiling on the
> different OSs.
>>
>> The request is simple: List the steps required (without skipping  
>> any!)
>> to take the C source file " helloworld.c" and make it into a usable
>> object in pd.
> If you're on some kind of MSVC, you set up a project to build a  
> dll, in
> "preprocessor defines" define MSW, in "additional include paths"  
> include
> the path to pd/src/m_pd.h, link with pd.lib from pd/bin, and in the
> linker command line add "/export:yourexternal_setup" to export the  
> setup
> function. All the other functions in your code can be static and don't
> need to be exported. After it builds you take the dll from the release
> folder and put it in your pd/extra folder.
> That should be everything you need, but if it's too cryptic I can go
> into more detail...
>
> Martin
>
>
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