Okey dokey - got a plug from mingw mailing list... (sorry about how mucked up it is -
I have to run to class).
BTW, dev-c++ should have 2.95.2
------Original Message------
From: Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: March 14, 2000 11:50:11 AM GMT
Subject: [mingw] Re: MIDI???
Hello Ian,
Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IS> Greetings to all out in cyberland...
[]
IS> Due to certain restrictions, our sound system has not been yet ported to the
IS> Dos/Win32 platform.
You said that.
IS> However this should change soon due to some new volunteers... Anyway, I've said
enough about
IS> that...
IS> Currently our Win32 port is being compiled using Vis C++ 6.0 (Vis C++ 5.0 release
Coming
IS> Soon (TM)). I suggested recently that we could perhaps write a mingw port, seeing
as it is
IS> from the GCC family. Seeing as the project is all GNU/GPL, someone thought it was
a good
IS> idea, and I decided to dig around for more details.
That's really good idea. There's many opinions, for example some
orthodoxes think there can be GNU on Windows at all. I myself have
other funny opinion, that's really shame to develop GNU software with
non-GNU compiler after all, many GNU guys won't be able to use it, so please
take encouragement that using gnu-win32 at all, and mingw32 in
specific case, is really good.
IS> One of the possibly sticking points, however, is a rumour that mingw has problems
IS> with midi functionality. I was just wondering if this was true or not... and indeed
IS> (me being a new comer to windows and C++) whether there was actual support for midi
IS> in mingw...
The only way I can interpret this is that you're afraid there's
no full headers for Windows Multimedia subsystem functionality. But
that's probably not true. Latest stable release (2.95.2) has
'mmsystem.h', it sizes 68k, and have many occurances of string 'MIDI'.
So, since you don't have ready-made library, but going to develop it,
I guess you'll have little problems with it, and even if you'll have
some little, they will be easily fixed.
IS> If anyone could please clarify that for me, I'd be very grateful...
IS> I know I've rambled on for too long, but some publicity for the freesci
IS> project (freesci.linuxgames.com) never hurts :)
You're welcome, and I hope it helped a liitle.
IS> Thanks
IS> Ian
--
Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
------Original Message------
From: Claudio Matsuoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: March 14, 2000 2:35:28 PM GMT
Subject: RE: mingw???
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dmitry Jemerov wrote:
> I've heard that mingw has some problems with multimedia support. Currently
> the Win32 port doesn't have MIDI playback, so that's not a problem for now,
> but it can cause troubles later.
AFAIK Mingw32 doesn't support native multimedia, you need SDL or other lib
to have sound support. Mingw's shell is awfully slow, Cygwin seems to
be a better alternative.
claudio
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