MinGW/MSYS and MSVC do not coexist well. If you have installed both, make 
sure that your PATH and other environment variables ONLY to either 
MingW/MSYS OR to MSVC, NEVER to both at the same time.

You can do this by creating batch files to set up your MinGW and MSVC build 
environments.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Hearon" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:20 PM
Subject: [Csnd] MSVC build


>
> Going build crazy.  Gave up on MinGW on Win32 for timebeing.  Went to 
> Victor's MSVC build instructions using VC98 using Scons.  It's stuck on 
> "Checking for C header file sndfile.h...no"
>
> I've put sndfile.h everywhere I can think it might look and it still 
> doesn't see it.  I have the msvc libsndfile.dll in System32.  Also tried 
> pointing Custom.py to the csound5 subdirectory msvc libsndfile folder, 
> and/or to the original installation libsndfile-1.0.11/src and 
> libsndfile-1.0.11/win32 folders.  Still complaining.
>
> Yuk. This is getting me down.  I marvel at how you guys can actually 
> develop when I can't even get it to compile.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
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