As the build instructions in the manual say (or should say), you do need MSys.

The visual C++ build could be gotten to work with some fancy footwork undefining and redefining these types. Victor Lazzarini might know more about that.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Matti Koskinen 
>Sent: Nov 13, 2007 6:21 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] csound5 compilation in windows
>
>I managed to compile 5.07 in linux without any problems, but trying to 
>compile latest cvs is no go.
>I installed mingw (not msys) and scons testing the compiler fails. If I 
>try to compile a test program command line, mingw compiles it ok, and 
>the result is ok too. Then I tried msvc 2005 express edition, and the 
>compilation starts, but terminates with error intptr_t redefinition and 
>also uintptr_t redefinition.
>
>Does msys affect? or has anybody succeeded with msvc express?
>
>I'd like to try the latest cvs, as I found Cecilia 3.0, but that crashes 
>immediately with tclcsound.dll from 5.07, little further I can go with 
>5.03, which was in the same directory as cecilia-3.0.zip.
>
>thanks
>
>-matti
>
>
>
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