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[Csnd] Re: Windows build

Date2008-10-18 08:49
Fromvictor
Subject[Csnd] Re: Windows build
Well done, that was a good detective work.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Gogins" 
To: "Csound Developers" ; "Csound" 

Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 3:14 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Windows build


>I believe I have now resolved the Windows installation and runtime issues 
>reported by Art Hunkins and others by building with MinGW gcc version 
>4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2). This version of the compiler uses setjump/longjump 
>exception handling, instead of the Dwarf-2 standard exception handling that 
>was used to build the current installers.
>
> The dw2 version of the compiler builds a version of Csound that runs 
> somewhat faster, but the dw2 code for relocation of DLLs has bugs that are 
> not present in the sjlj version. The sjlj build of Csound still runs 
> plenty fast.
>
> All third-party libraries have been rebuilt with sjlj and basic functional 
> tests have been performed. I will post updated Windows installers sometime 
> this weekend. There are no plugin load errors and no runtime dependencies 
> on the Microsoft runtime library.
>
> I have attached an updated csound-build.pdf.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
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