> On Nov 28, 2019, at 6:39 AM, [email protected] wrote:

>   - No mention of autogen.sh in install.txt

It is listed in the *general* for using the auto tools build, which are the 
same for all platforms:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt#L40 
<https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt#L40>

The platform subheadings then list platform-specific options, build 
configurations, etc. I did not feel it make sense to have the same general 
steps repeated for each platform.

Should we add some sort of "Now that your build system is setup, follow the 
general auto tools build instructions." line to the Windows subsection?

>   - No C compiler in msys2 by default. pacman -S msys/gcc was the correct
>   one (after a few tries).

gcc is one option, however the suggested packages include clang 
(mingw-w64-x86_64-clang) which is also sufficient:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt#L311 
<https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt#L311>

>   - Failed trying to link OSS. Tried ./configure --disable-oss - but no
>   other midi or audio APIs found, and s_audio.c still looked for OSS.

Clearly the configure step has failed and I'm glad to see it was something 
simple, based on your following emails. I didn't realize the build relied on 
specific folder naming on Windows and we should take a note of that. The reason 
why this was not discovered earlier is that most people use git clone which 
names the folder "pure-data" while downloading the zip from Github adds the 
"-master."

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>



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