Yes.

Most applications, these days, consist of an executable program plus shared libraries. The installer contains all of these parts in some archive and unzips them into the appropriate places.

If I wanted to use Csound as a toolkit for making stand-alone softsynths on Windows -- a task at which it would excel -- I would write the softsynth in C++ using FLTK or the Windows Template Library, embed my Csound orchestra and score as a resource in the application, and bundle the required DLLs with the app in a NSIS installer. I would use the channel APIs to bind FLTK widgets to global variables in my orchestra. There are various Python apps in the Csound examples directory that do this; the pattern would be almost identical in C++.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bechard 
>Sent: Jul 22, 2008 1:49 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Beginners Question, Csound as stand-alone softsynth / plugin?
>
>Don't you still need the CSound libraries if you went with Python or any of the other languages you mentioned?
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: victor 
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:42:22 PM
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Beginners Question, Csound as stand-alone softsynth / plugin?
>
> 
>With Python, TclTk, Java or C/C++ it is very easy 
>to do a standalone for
>Csound.  MaxMSP standalones are not really 
>standalones, they need
>the maxplay bit (or embeded). Of all current 
>systems, Csound 5 is the
>one the offers the most flexibility in terms of 
>choice of language for
>implementation. At the end of the day, it is a 
>programming library.
> 
>There is also cabbage by Rory Walsh, which is a 
>standalone builder. And
>on windows, his Lettuce can generate standalones as 
>well (I think).
> 
>Victor
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: peiman khosravi 
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk 
>Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:23 
>PM
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Beginners Question,  Csound as stand-alone softsynth / plugin?
>Perhaps this is not the place to say this. But I think it is  very easy to make a standalone application with RTcmix. And of  course with maxmsp. RTcmix in particular is very similar to csound in terms of  syntax, if you know csound you will find it very easy to learn as they are  both descendants of the Music V family of languages. I have no idea how you  would do this with csound maybe someone else can say, but I would imagine that  it would require some level of extra-csound  programing expertise.  
>
>Best
>Peiman
> 
>
>
> 
>
>
>
>On 22 Jul 2008, at 15:30, Andreas Jansson wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I'm an audio engineering student doing an essay on  synthesiser design.
>I have not been using Csound for very long, but I  want to submit a
>Csound instrument with my appendices. However I  would rather not have
>to include the whole Csound library, in order to  make it easier
>marked.
>
>I have been reading about Csound VST and csLADSPA,  but from what I
>understand, they also require the Csound  library(?). Is there any way
>of "compiling" the .csd file as a VST-plugin, or a  stand-alone
>solft-synth "application"?
>
>I use an Intel Macbook, but I think could find me a  PC if necessary.
>
>All the best,
>Andreas Jansson
>
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