I have uploaded the MinGW-built (gcc 4.2.1) Windows installer for the 
double-precision sample version of Csound 5.08 beta to:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/csound/Csound5.08.1-gnu-win32-d.exe?use_mirror=superb-east

As far as I know, no non-free features of Csound that work on Windows at all 
are missing from this release. The current GNU debugger now debugs Csound 
quite reliably and easily in Emacs. Csound now runs somewhat faster than the 
previous release build with gcc 3.4.2, but not as fast the MSVC build, which 
I am still working on. I think an Intel compiler build would be yet faster, 
and I may try that if I have enough time before my trial license runs out.

My tests were just of the 'does it run, does it make a sound,' variety and I 
am counting on users and other developers to report problems.

The issue with date.dll, pan2.dll, and pvs_ops.dll not loading was resolved 
simply by renaming them cs_date.dll, cs_pan2.dll, and cs_pvs_ops.dll. I have 
no idea at all why this worked. I made no other changes to SConstruct. I did 
make a few changes to sources in the course of trying to figure out why they 
did not load, but the only difference between loading and not loading is the 
filenames. I searched for other versions of the files on my computer and did 
not find them.

Everything used to make this release - SCons, MinGW/MSYS, third party 
libraries -- is the current version except for Java, which is 5.0.

Some third party libraries were built with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, and 
therefore I have included the Microsoft runtime library in a 
Microsoft.VC90.CRT subdirectory of the Csound bin directory. If that doesn't 
work, let me know.

My apologies for how long this has taken, but I think the Windows build is 
now in a much more maintainable and debuggable state.

Changes that I made to get this installer, in summary:

2008-03-02  Michael Gogins  

 * SConstruct, csoundd.nsi
 Many changes to enable building and installing Csound built
 with MSVC 2008 or MinGW 4.2.1

 * CsoundAC
 Build as static library to try to work around problem with
 MSVC corrupting data in C++ classes exported but based
 on non-exported STL classes.

 * API Reference
 Updated to reflect recent changes.

2008-02-23  Michael Gogins  

 * InOut/widgets.cpp
 Fixed a major bug in which the Csound memory manager (C style) was
 allocating and deallocating a C++ structure (WIDGETS_GLOBALS).
 If new is not called for WIDGETS_GLOBALS, the constructors of its
 std::vector collections are not called. Then in the widget
 csoundDestroyModule function, invalid vectors are iterated,
 causing an access violation. Fixed by using standard C++
 new and delete for the structure to ensure proper creation of its
 vector members. This is OK because by calling csoundModuleInit
 and csoundModuleDestroy, Csound is permitting the module to
 manage its own memory.

 The code accessed FLTK flags as a value when the flags had not been
 initialized as a global variable. This caused an access violation
 in csoundModuleDestroy. The code has been changed to get the flags
 as a pointer, and only dereference the pointer if it is not null.

 * Opcodes/vst4cs/src/vst4cs.cpp
 Cleaned up csoundModuleDestroy code for Windows MSVC build,
 which was causing an access violation.

2008-02-22  Michael Gogins  

 * SConstruct
 Many changes to enable all features of Csound to build with
 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (MSVC). Also changes to enable
 build with MinGW 3.4.5/MSys 1.0.11/SCons 0.97.

 * custom-mingw.py and custom-msvc.py
 Rationalized locations of third-party libraries in
 network mounted "U:/" drive root directory.

 * Frontends/CsoundAC/Counterpoint.cpp
 Many changes to enable MSVC compilation.

 * CsoundVST
 Renamed CsoundVST.exe to CsoundVstShell.exe to
 enable MSVC build.
 Exported new RunCsoundVST function to enable CsoundVstShell to run
 with MSVC build.

Regards,
Mike

Many thanks for these new version, but...

The csnd.jar in interface/java is void, it does not contain class files 
(file size == 431 bytes)

jp

Michael Gogins a écrit :
> I have uploaded the MinGW-built (gcc 4.2.1) Windows installer for the 
> double-precision sample version of Csound 5.08 beta to:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/csound/Csound5.08.1-gnu-win32-d.exe?use_mirror=superb-east 
>
>
>

Csound reports the following when performing the attached csd
Missing end tag 
No error in the execution

jp

Michael Gogins a écrit :
> I have uploaded the MinGW-built (gcc 4.2.1) Windows installer for the 
> double-precision sample version of Csound 5.08 beta to:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/csound/Csound5.08.1-gnu-win32-d.exe?use_mirror=superb-east 
>
>
>

Well no apologies necessary from my perspective Michael. I've simply watched
on trying to pick up useful bits of information & / or ideas as best i
could, & i'd now consider trying to build csound myself at some point in the
future, just purely for the learning exercise, & as a basic introduction to
compilers & the world of C & "proper" programming.

I'm very glad you feel the effort has been worth it & that you feel "your
job" therefore will now become a lot easier..

Many Many thanks for your hard work & perseverance in assisting all us
generally "programming illiterate" Windows types out there with a compiled
Csound Windows installer....


Michael Gogins wrote:
> 
> 
> My apologies for how long this has taken, but I think the Windows build is 
> now in a much more maintainable and debuggable state.
> 
> 


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