Thanks for sharing your workflows. I'll try what you people are doing and see how far I come, though I somewhat sympathize with the idea of doing all in Debian (without wine/Windows VM). But let's try the established paths first.
Roman On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 09:46 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > I compile externs both in mingw and in Microsoft Visual C running under > wine (so both from linux). I keep a Windows XP machine around and crank it > up to test things when I put out Pd releases, but all eh compiling happens > in linux, and the first round of testing is under wine, which allows me to > catch most problems without having to turn on Windows. (BTW my Windows > machine is behind a firewall and has no name server configured in an > attempt to keep whatever malware it's running from damaging anything. > I recommend never putting a Windows machine where it can access the internet.) > > cheers > Miller > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 08:17:03PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 21/06/15 18:13, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > The new deken plugin makes me want to compile externals for Windows. > > > > Any compiles and testing you can do with Deken on Windows is much > > appreciated, thank you so much. > > > > > What are people using? Are you compiling directly on Windows or are you > > > cross-compiling from Linux? Are you going with the tool chain from your > > > Distro or are you downloading the highest and latest manually? > > > > So far in my limited experiments have been to upload existing externals > > from the last good build of the old Pd-extended binaries packages: > > > > http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2013-08-08/ > > > > And then test them with Wine because my Windows XP virtualbox is doing > > the same thing you reported yours was doing in 2011 here: > > > > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-11/092698.html > > > > If you have a chance to try out the 'freeverb~' external I uploaded on a > > Pd-vanilla 0.46 from Miller and to let me know if that works for you on > > Windows that would be very useful. If it works I'll upload more of the > > old Pd-extended externals binaries. > > > > Once we have a good set of externals live I guess it would make sense to > > tentatively let people on the Pd-list know about this method of > > obtaining externals. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris. > > > > -- > > http://mccormick.cx/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
