Hi,
As both Benno and I have recently discovered, it is pretty hard to build
linuxsampler, and especially gigedit (as an LS plugin and with
translations enabled), on Windows. So, I wrote these preliminary build
instructions to make it a bit easier. Currently only libgig,
linuxsampler and gigedit are covered.
I'm not sure where this text should be put. On the web? In CVS for each
package? The current win32 build instructions in libgig and gigedit use
another method (Dev-C++ instead of MSYS) which I don't think support the
gigedit translations for example.
/Andreas
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* Windows build instructions
These are instructions for building libgig, linuxsampler and gigedit
on Windows (32 bit) with help of MinGW and MSYS. After the MinGW and
MSYS environment and the other prerequisites are installed, the build
procedure will be the same as in Linux, that is, basically:
./configure ; make ; make install.
The versions of the files to download are just the ones I used before
writing this text. You can probably use later ones if available.
Some of the instructions below are marked with ** and ***:
** = only needed if you are going to build from CVS, not if you are
using the tar file releases
*** = only needed if you are going to build gigedit
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* MinGW
Download the MinGW installer, MinGW-5.1.4.exe, from www.mingw.org and
run it.
* pkg-config and gtkmm
The pkg-config tool is needed by the configure script of all the
LinuxSampler packages. pkg-config is included in gtkmm, which is
needed by gigedit. (If you are not going to build gigedit, you can
download just GLib and pkg-config from www.gtk.org.)
Download the gtkmm windows installer,
gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.14.1-3.exe, from www.gtkmm.org, and run it. Let
the installer adjust the PATH variable as it wants.
* MSYS
I use the 1.0.11 Technology Preview version, as I had problems
building DLLs with the 1.0.10 current version.
Download from "MSYS Base System, Technology Preview: MSYS-1.0.11":
msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz
bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2
Unpack these to a directory of your choice, for example C:\msys. As
1.0.11 doesn't have an installer yet, you need to have an unpacker
that supports tar.gz/tar.bz, for example 7-zip. The rest of the files
you can unpack with the tar included in msysCORE.
Run the postinstall\pi.bat file and specify your MinGW directory.
Download from "MSYS Supplementary Tools, Technology Preview: Tools for
MSYS-1.0.11":
autoconf2.5-2.61-1-bin.tar.bz2 **
autoconf-4-1-bin.tar.bz2 **
automake1.10-1.10-1-bin.tar.bz2 **
automake-3-1-bin.tar.bz2 **
bison-2.3-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 **
crypt-1.1-1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 **
cvs-1.11.22-MSYS-1.0.11-1-bin.tar.gz **
gettext-0.16.1-1-bin.tar.bz2 ***
gettext-0.16.1-1-dll.tar.bz2 ***
libiconv-1.11-1-bin.tar.bz2 ***
libiconv-1.11-1-dll.tar.bz2 ***
libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-bin.tar.bz2
perl-5.6.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 ***
Download from "MSYS Supplementary Tools, Current Release:
msysDTK-1.0.1":
m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2 **
Extract all these files to the msys directory, by starting msys, do
"cd /" and use tar.
* ASIO SDK
Download asiosdk2.2.zip from Steinberg. Extract it to your msys $HOME.
* VST SDK
If you want to build the LinuxSampler VST plugin, download
vst_sdk2_4_rev2.zip from Steinberg (note that you should not choose
version 3). Extract it to msys $HOME.
* intltool ***
Download intltool_0.40.4-1_win32.zip from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/intltool
Unzip this into the msys local directory, (C:\msys\local for example)
* Perl ***
The perl in MSYS is lacking an XML parser which is needed by
intltool. Download ActivePerl from www.activestate.com and install it.
* xsltproc ***
The gigedit Makefile wants to build the gigedit quick start
documentation, so it needs the xsltproc command. Download from
ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/:
libxml2-2.7.2+.win32.zip
libxslt-1.1.24.win32.zip
Copy the contents of the bin directories from both zip files to a
directory of your choice. Add this directory last in your msys PATH,
for example:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/xsltproc
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* MSYS setup
Add the gtkmm aclocal directory to the list of extra directories used
by autoconf (make sure the gtkmm path is the one where you installed
it):
echo "/c/Program Files/gtkmm/share/aclocal" >> \
/usr/local/share/aclocal/dirlist
Make sure pkg-config will find the LinuxSampler libraries:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
*** The intltool scripts expect perl to be in /opt/perl/bin, so make a
link to the ActivePerl installation. Also add ActivePerl to PATH:
mkdir -p /opt/perl/bin
ln -s /c/Perl/bin /opt/perl/bin
export PATH=/c/Perl/bin:$PATH
*** MSYS gettext and gtkmm both include libintl. We want the gtkmm
version. Remove the MSYS files so the gettext configure tools don't
choose the wrong version:
rm /usr/local/include/libintl.h /usr/local/lib/libintl*
*** The gettext configure tools also need:
export CPPFLAGS="-I/c/Program Files/gtkmm/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/c/Program Files/gtkmm/lib"
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* Building libsndfile
The windows precompiled version of libsndfile doesn't include the
neccessary pkg-config file, so it's best to build libsdnfile
yourself. Download libsndfile-1.0.17.tar.gz from www.mega-nerd.com and
extract it to your $HOME:
cd
tar xzf libsndfile-1.0.17.tar.gz
To prevent a compilation error for the test cases, add
#include <stdint.h>
to tests/utils.h.
./configure
make
make install
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* Building libgig
Just use the same commands as you would in linux:
make -f Makefile.cvs (if you build from CVS)
./configure (add any configuration parameters as you wish)
make
make install
* Building linuxsampler
make -f Makefile.cvs (if you build from CVS)
./configure --enable-asiosdk-dir=$HOME \
--enable-vstsdk-dir=$HOME/vstsdk2.4
make
make install
* Building gigedit
make -f Makefile.cvs (if you build from CVS)
./configure
make
make install
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