Re: [iiwusynth-devel] iiwusynth / windows / cygwin or mingw build

[Josh Green]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 00:34, Peter Hanappe wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I haven't tried compiling on cygwin or mingw, yet. I have a crappy old
> windows machine with cygwin installed so I could give it a try. The
> problem is always the same, lack of time. Can you send me your
> changes to configure? I'm afraid that with cygwin it's non trivial
> to link against the windows libraries since they're in a different
> format. There is a workaround but I've never been able to make it
> work. I believe the chances of compiling/linking successfully with mingw
> are higher than with cygwin. Anyway, it'd be good to have a free
> alternative to MSVC++.
> 
> Thanks,
> P
> 

Even cooler would be to get FluidSynth to cross compile on Linux with
mingw32 and test with wine :) I've done this before with Swami. My plan
is that in the future I can maintain a win32 version of Swami without
having to ever touch that evil OS, he he. Cheers.
        Josh Green