Building libpd in Windows

Here’s how I got libpd built and running under Windows. The key is to use msys2 and mingw-w64 instead of the older mingw32.

# install msys2-installer

# open msys2_shell pacman –needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime pacman -Su # restart msys_shell pacman -S git pacman -S mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-gcc pacman -S make

# run mingw32_shell.bat # issues with git ca certs? try http://stackoverflow.com/a/8467406 git clone https://github.com/libpd/libpd.git libpd cd libpd # update the pure-data submodule git submodule init git submodule update # build it make UTIL=true EXTRA=true # set path to dlls export PATH=/c/dev/libpd-2/libs:$PATH

# c sample cd samples/c/pdtest env CC=gcc make UTIL=true EXTRA=true ./pdtest.exe test.pd .

# output Ben@bentoshi MINGW32 /c/dev/libpd/samples/c/pdtest $ ./pdtest.exe test.pd . bonk version 1.5 expr, expr~, fexpr~ version 0.4 under GNU Lesser General Public License fiddle version 1.1 TEST4 pique 0.1 for PD version 23 sigmund~ version 0.07 print: 0 noteon: 0 0 0 print: 1 noteon: 0 1 0 print: 2 noteon: 0 2 0 print: 3 noteon: 0 3 0 print: 4 noteon: 0 4 0 …

As for samples/cpp/pdtest_rtaudio … adding “AUDIO_API = -lole32 -loleaut32 -ldsound -lwinmm” to the windows section of the Makefile eliminates a few of the link errors. I still get some link errors … but I’ll tackle those another time.

Update: I’ve got c++ bindings working now. There were a few minor flags to add to some Makefiles, notably -Wl,–export-all-symbols to the linker and some windows libs to the rtaudio demo. I’ve submitted the patch.

Update 2: After a bit of work today I also got libpd and sfml talking nicely to each other.