[PD] problems with building flext with mingw

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> To: Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] problems with building flext with mingw
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>; "pd-list at iem.at" 
> <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] problems with building flext with mingw
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>> Hi Jonathan,
>> thanks for your feedback - i have to admit i haven't run mingw (or  
>> even Windows) for years. It's almost a surprise that it still works  
>> with some tweaking.
>> I would be thankful for a diff to patch the flext build system  
>> according to your findings.

Hm... wouldn't you be better off simply removing all the configuration
stuff that forces the user to specify where to find pthread stuff?  If it
now comes with mingw shouldn't your source code simply be able to
have <pthread.h> or whatever and it "just works"?

I'll post a guide later today (or possibly tomorrow) which will show the
hacks I'm making.  Basically I specify "C:\MinGW\include" for the headers,
etc., which of course is inflexible and wouldn't work if the install path changes.

-Jonathan

>> gr~~~
> 
> Once I get through it and compile a few externals successfully I'll
> send you one.  The nice thing with mingw is that it's _min_imal
> and-- if I understand it-- you can use the binaries without needing
> to have mingw (or cygwin) installed on the system.  Plus its free
> beer/freedom. :)
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
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>> Thomas Grill
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>> Am 08.05.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Jonathan Wilkes:
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>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>>   From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>>>   To: Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org>; Roman Haefeli 
>> <reduzent at gmail.com>
>>>>   Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>>   Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 1:09 PM
>>>>   Subject: Re: [PD] problems with building flext with mingw
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>>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>   From: Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org>
>>>>>   To: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
>>>>>   Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>>>>>   Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 3:23 AM
>>>>>   Subject: Re: [PD] problems with building flext with mingw
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Actually i have encountered this issue, but haven't had 
> the 
>> time and
>>>>   nerve
>>>>>   to deal with it in the Windows batch file 
> "language". 
>> It's a
>>>>   quite
>>>>>   tricky issue and i am not sure it is really solvable. But  
>>>>>   contributions are
>>>> 
>>>>>   welcome!
>>> 
>>>   Found it in:
>>>   buildsys/win/pd/gnumake-mingw
>>> 
>>>   The -lpthreadVC flag must come last.  (Not sure how you got it to  
>>>   compile that way.)
>>> 
>>>   But with the newest version of mingw-get-inst the real solution is  
>>>   to remove the entire
>>>   ifdef around setting those flags because pthread is included with  
>>>   mingw (contrary to the
>>>   mingw documentation which explicitly says its missing).
>>> 
>>>   Also the -mno-cygwin flag is no longer supported and will break the  
>>>   compilation so it
>>>   must be removed.
>>> 
>>>   -Jonathan
>> 
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