Re: [Audacity-devel] Recent Windows build

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Dave Fancella wrote:
> Two questions real quick.
> 
> 1.  Is there a recent build of cvs head for Windows?  I have Visual Studio, 
> but would prefer not to install it at this time, and last time I tried 
> compiling with it I failed, so I know it'll take a bit longer to get it 
> compiled and running (it = audacity).  Sourceforge is supposed to do nightly 
> tarballs, but I don't know if their compiler farm will compile windows apps.

This is pretty recent, from Vaughan:

http://home.earthlink.net/~vaughanjohnson/audacity/audacity-win_2003-06-07.zip

> 2.  Anybody ever try to build it in Cygwin?  Curious, because I installed 
> Cygwin, and I would really prefer to use it as my only compiler in Windows.  
> (rather, GCC as my only compiler)

It is possible but it's a major headache.  A couple people got it to
build, but I don't think anyone ever got it to the point where you
could use it.  To really support it we'd need to improve all of our
Makefiles so that they're flexible enough to handle Cygwin.

Anyway, if you're interested, I'd recommend trying it in stages.
Start with wxWindows - they officially support Cygwin.  Then build
some of the lib-src libraries, finally work on Audacity.  If you
get that far I'd be interested in helping, especially if you can
document what changes would be necessary to get that far.

- Dominic


> Dave
>