Hi everyone,

A couple of months ago I attempted this but needed to improve my 
knowledge of C++. Now I'm reading the instructions again on how to set 
up to use the Csound API. I have RoryWalsh_CsoundAPI.pdf.

"In order to use the API you will need to download the Csound source 
code which can be found here: http://csound.sourceforge.net/. To build 
the examples below with MinGW you will need to
first create an import library by running the following instructions at 
command prompt.
pexports -o csound32.dll.5.1 > csound32.def
Before proceeding to the next step you may need to edit the newly 
created csound32.def and remove the first line which seems to cause an 
error. Then created the new import library using the
following command:
dlltool --dllname=csound32.dll.5.1 --input-def=csound32.def 
–outputlib=libcsound32.a"

I've been using version 6.15.0 for a couple of years.

I found the pexports tool here 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/pexports/ 
dated 2015. Is that the latest one?

Jana Cole

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Hi Jana,

I think those instructions look a bit old (for Csound 5). You should not need any of that on Windows anymore,
as Csound is built with Visual Studio tools now. All you need is to add Csound64.lib to your link libraries in the
project and also set the header paths to find the Csound headers. These are all provided in the Csound installation,
you will find them in the disk.

This repository might be useful for you

https://github.com/csound/csoundAPI_examples

HTH
========================
Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland

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> Hi everyone,
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> A couple of months ago I attempted this but needed to improve my
> knowledge of C++. Now I'm reading the instructions again on how to set
> up to use the Csound API. I have RoryWalsh_CsoundAPI.pdf.
> 
> "In order to use the API you will need to download the Csound source
> code which can be found here: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcsound.sourceforge.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7CVictor.Lazzarini%40mu.ie%7Cf18050dc248443d2ed7d08d95e94c4b2%7C1454f5ccbb354685bbd98621fd8055c9%7C1%7C1%7C637644815321439877%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=0uPnnE%2BREj64uAmglekOMH13GcEVi%2F7A15w2XG0IspM%3D&reserved=0. To build
> the examples below with MinGW you will need to
> first create an import library by running the following instructions at
> command prompt.
> pexports -o csound32.dll.5.1 > csound32.def
> Before proceeding to the next step you may need to edit the newly
> created csound32.def and remove the first line which seems to cause an
> error. Then created the new import library using the
> following command:
> dlltool --dllname=csound32.dll.5.1 --input-def=csound32.def
> –outputlib=libcsound32.a"
> 
> I've been using version 6.15.0 for a couple of years.
> 
> I found the pexports tool here
> https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fmingw%2Ffiles%2FMinGW%2FExtension%2Fpexports%2F&data=04%7C01%7CVictor.Lazzarini%40mu.ie%7Cf18050dc248443d2ed7d08d95e94c4b2%7C1454f5ccbb354685bbd98621fd8055c9%7C1%7C1%7C637644815321449870%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=kUyYMVwx73QeAlzEiFKekojpARdYQp%2FGRvVbpoIy26g%3D&reserved=0
> dated 2015. Is that the latest one?
> 
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