Precompiled versions of many of these libraries are available from the CLAM and Create Signal Library projects.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Anthony Kozar 
>Sent: Apr 18, 2008 1:44 PM
>To: Csound Developer list 
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] "tool sets" for building Csound
>
>DavidW wrote on 3/23/08 7:13 PM:
>
>> Whilst there is obviously redundancy in factoring the build process by
>> platform in the manual, it does make clear how much easier it is for
>> the DIY (novice) builder  on *nix. Perhaps it is possible to provide
>> Windows builders with a half-way toolset? Maybe it already happens; I
>> don't build on Windows.
>> D.
>
>Sorry to reply to this so late ...
>
>I wanted to say that this is largely what I do for Mac OS 9.  In the Csound
>source package for OS 9, you will find pre-compiled libraries with source
>and IDE projects for most of the library dependencies that are needed to
>rebuild the OS 9 binary distribution.  Thus, someone interested in
>recompiling just Csound does not have to download, configure, and recompile
>libsndfile, libpng, zlib, Loris, FFTW, etc. (1)  The only major thing that I
>do not include is Python because of its size. (2)
>
>Since Windows is in a similar boat to OS 9 for open-source libraries (even
>the common ones like zlib are not included with the OS), a separate package
>containing pre-compiled versions of all of the dependencies with source code
>set up for easy compilation of Csound would seem very helpful to me.  This
>package should hardly ever need to be updated if its maintainer is not too
>zealous about updating individual libraries.  (I have been using the same
>versions of libsndfile and other libraries since Csound 5 was released).
>
>Sure, this is more work for the already over-worked Csound packagers, but it
>would hopefully not be too much (escpecially if the dependency package is
>only updated once every year or so).
>
>Anthony
>
>(1) The main reason I include these is that my understanding of the LGPL and
>GPL licenses is that offering the source code for download is required if we
>are distributing library binaries that we compiled ourselves.
>
>(2) Python also has a simple installer and does not need to be compiled.
>
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