On Thursday, July 15, 2010, Graham Goode wrote: > I was informed that CMake would create the necessary configuration to > build with MSVS, so I downloaded and installed CMake, ran the Windows > GUI, configured it for the VS2008 compiler and then got a whole load > of errors and red lines. Most of the red was for libraries I didn't > need (alsa, jack, etc). So I deselected those. I then tried loading > PATH statements for things that I did need,(i.e.the PortAudio build), > but nothing worked. I readup on the FAQ online, and I still do not > know how to get it to find what it seems to be needing.
Most libraries required by FluidSynth are checked using the pkg-config utility, in windows and any other platforms. You need the "pkg-config.exe" program available in the PATH, and the pkg-config data directory containing all the *.pc files for the libraries you intend to use. How to get the libraries and pkg-config installed in windows? Well, for FluidSynth 1.1.x, the first requirement is glib (and gthread). Here is the download page: http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html You need glib-VERSION.zip, glib-dev-VERSION.zip, and pkg-config-X.zip, if you uncompress all these zips in the same directory, for instance C:\soft, then you will get the following tree: C:\soft\ ├───bin ├───include │ └───glib-2.0 │ ├───gio │ ├───glib │ └───gobject ├───lib │ └───glib-2.0 │ └───include ├───libsndfile │ ├───doc │ ├───include │ └───Projects │ ├───w32-cygwin │ ├───w32-vc7 │ └───w32-vc9 ├───manifest ├───pkgconfig ├───share │ ├───aclocal (...) As you can see, there is a directory C:\soft\pkgconfig, it has some little text files containing compile and link specifications for several libraries. C:\> pkg-config --list-all gio-2.0 GIO - glib I/O library gmodule-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib glib-2.0 GLib - C Utility Library gmodule-no-export-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib gthread-2.0 GThread - Thread support for GLib sndfile sndfile - A library for reading and writing audio files gobject-2.0 GObject - GLib Type, Object, Parameter and Signal C:\soft\pkgconfig> dir /w Directory of C:\soft\pkgconfig [.] [..] gio-2.0.pc glib-2.0.pc gmodule-2.0.pc gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc gobject-2.0.pc gthread-2.0.pc sndfile.pc 7 File(s) 2,104 bytes For instance, this is the content of my "sndfile.pc": prefix=C:/soft/libsndfile exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=${exec_prefix} includedir=${prefix}/include Name: sndfile Description: A library for reading and writing audio files Requires: Version: 1.0.20 Libs: -L${libdir} -llibsndfile-1 Cflags: -I${includedir} I don't use PortAudio myself, but SndFile may be similar. I've installed it at the same place (C:\soft), then created and placed "sndfile.pc" in the pkgconfig data directory, because this file wasn't available in the downloaded packages. Finally, I think you may want to look at the content of my PATH environment variable (from VS2008 command prompt): PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C: \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCPackages;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin;C: \Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (March 2008)\Utilities\Bin\x86;C: \WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\CMake 2.6\bin;C:\soft\bin;C:\soft\libsndfile For more information, please provide detailed error messages. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
