[PD] [playlist] for win32 [was:Re: What version of GEM should I use with pd 0.43-0 vanilla]

[Patrice Colet]

----- "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at> a écrit :

> On Apr 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:
> 

> > I'm wondering why the method isn't as same as in ggee/getdir to get 
> 
> > current dir, that would be a simple cross-platform method,
> > following wildcards in externals/Makefile we need to have it  
> > compiled for getting pianoroll and probalizer to work.
> 
> Looks like you got it working anyhow :)  I don't quite understand what
>  
> you mean about the getdir code, can you explain more?
> 

 The method in playlist.c call a function only available in unix systems while in getdir it uses canvas_getdir(),
available on any platform, it was simplier for me to just replace getenv( "PWD" ) by _getcwd (path, _MAX_DIR) .

For the information scandir() code for mingw has been taken from another mailing list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/developer@arabeyes.org/msg03153.html


> > lame DLL's doesn't seem to be provided by pdx installer, so I had to
>  
> > compile it for having the mp3* externals working,
> > I guess that anyone that doesn't have access to a compiler couldn't 
> 
> > run those pdx externals,
> 
> 
> The problem with LAME is that it covers algorithms that are patented 
> 
> in a number of countries, so its not easily distributable.  That's why
>  
> LAME is not in Debian, for example, and distributed as source code  
> only in other distros.
> 
> .hc
> 
>

 Okay I see, anyway I can't get the mp3 streaming externals working correctly.
 
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Patrice Colet