Another option would be to use a cross platform app layer wrapper (base stuff, 
not gui) that handles the pain for us. OpenFrameworks, for instance, uses Poco 
which greatly eases threading, etc between Windows & Unix. Of course, it's a 
C++ library, so that's probably a different story with the Pd core ...

For instance, here's the Poco Process class: 
http://pocoproject.org/docs/Poco.Process.html

On Jun 17, 2013, at 6:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Short digression-- after writing the Flext mingw build tutorial I've become 
> much
> more understanding of Sevy's approach of actively not supporting Windows.  I
> don't agree with it, as I think so much of Pd already runs adequately on 
> Windows
> to warrant pd~, too, in order to offer free software to as many users as 
> possible.
> But his was certainly a valid, compelling, and time-saving approach. :)

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com





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