You need the pre-release version of libsndfile sources referenced in my
earlier email. If you can't find 1.0.10 email me and I will email you the
sources or a prebuild lib, whichever you prefer.

Erik will be releasing this fix soon!... we hope.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steven yi" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4502] Re: Newbie trying to build Csound5 on mingw


> Hi Andres,
>
> I'm not sure about what's going on with the platform as 'unrecognized',
> but for libsndfile, you can not use just the source and must compile it
> before using it.  After compiling libsndfile, you should get a
> sndfile.dll or libsndfile.dll, and whatever directory that is in should
> be added to customLIBPATH.  (I haven't tried compiling on MinGW/MSYS yet
> so am going off how I'm seeing it; if otherwise, some please correct me).
>
> steven
>
>
> acabrera@teleset.com.co wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >First, thanks all for your great effort in getting Csound5 up and
running! I
> >can't wait to see it working!
> >
> >Now for the problems...
> >
> >I'm trying to build on Windows XP using mingw, and msys, but I'm getting
the
> >following on the msys terminal:
> >(I'm using Windows Python 2.3.3)
> >
> >System platform is 'win32'.
> >Tools:
> >['default', 'mslink', 'msvc', 'g77', 'gas', 'mslib', 'CVS', 'lex', 'm4',
'midl'
> >, 'msvs', 'tar', 'yacc', 'zip']
> >Build platform is 'unsupported'.
> >
> >Using single-precision floating point for audio samples.
> >Checking for C header file sndfile.h... no
> >The sndfile library is required to build Csound 5.
> >
> >
> >
> >Apparently, the build system is not recognizing mingw, even though I've
set
> >the /bin and /include directories for my mingw installation in custom.py.
Do I
> >need to install the msys sources as well? (That one is a really huge
> >download...).
> >I have already downloaded libsndfile. Am I setting the path correctly by
using:
> >
> >    customLIBPATH.append('C:/Dev-Cpp/libsndfile-1.0.10pre4/src')
> >
> >in custom.py ?
> >
> >Thanks in advance and be prepared to hear from me again....=)
> >Andres
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>