Actually I was deep enough in the weeds that it wasn't really a matter of
where to put READMEs but me realizing that it was portaudio-without-ASIO
instead of ASIO-not-seeing-any-devices.  No amount of documentation could
reasonably have saved me :)

thanks for all the pointers.
M

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 01:26:04PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> Also, the --enable-asio flag doesn't need to specified. In fact, the 
> configure script tries to choose the same default options as your previous 
> per-platform builds and you can see the configuration in it's final 
> confirmation prints.
> 
> The idea is that running a simple ./configure should set things up to build 
> the same Pd as people can download and, at the very least, give them info if 
> they are missing something. This way there's much less confusion as to which 
> flags to set and what options people are testing with ... at least that's the 
> idea. :)
> 
> > On May 9, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > You can blame me. :) I started filling out the various sub-directory 
> > READMEs as I thought putting too much information into the single 
> > INSTALL.txt might be overkill, hence the:
> > 
> > "Note: Because of license restrictions, Pd cannot distribute the ASIO SDK 
> > source
> > files. If you want to build Pd with ASIO support, see asio/README.txt for
> > further instructions."
> > 
> > Maybe that info could be elaborated/highlighted more?
> > 
> > Also, changing the directory name was more for future proofing and possibly 
> > avoiding broken builds if/when they update ASIO, although that may not 
> > really be happening any time soon.
> > 
> >> On May 9, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-requ...@lists.iem.at 
> >> <mailto:pd-dev-requ...@lists.iem.at> wrote:
> >> 
> >> From: Miller Puckette <m...@ucsd.edu <mailto:m...@ucsd.edu>>
> >> To: Lucas Cordiviola <lucard...@hotmail.com <mailto:lucard...@hotmail.com>>
> >> Cc: "pd-...@iem.at <mailto:pd-...@iem.at>" <pd-...@iem.at 
> >> <mailto:pd-...@iem.at>>
> >> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] how to configure PD to find ASIO when compiling
> >>    with mingw?
> >> Message-ID: <20180508143021.GN14921@elroy.localdomain 
> >> <mailto:20180508143021.GN14921@elroy.localdomain>>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >> 
> >> Thanks - I should have been able to find that, hmm...
> >> 
> >> Miller
> > 
> > --------
> > Dan Wilcox
> > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --------
> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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