[Audacity-devel] Audacity on Cygwin

[Dave F. <dav...@co...>]

All,

I screwed with compiling Audacity under cygwin today, and here's what I 
came up with:

Nyquist didn't compile, and gave a very nonspecific error.  I didn't 
look deeper, I just ./configure --without-nyquist to the next step.

zip wasn't found.  Cygwin doesn't install this utility by default.  So, 
fire up the cygiwn installer and make sure zip is installed, because it 
is included in the net distribution (don't know about a non-net 
distribution)

Portaudio (and through induction, portmixer) didn't compile.  Reason is 
simple: it assumes it's compiling under Linux and tries to compile the 
OSS source for Portaudio.  SO I added some lines to configure.in to 
change portaudio compilation under cygwin.  I just copied the *) case 
and replaced pa_unix_oss with pa_win_winmme, and the corresponding 
portmixer parts as well.  Of course, there weren't makefiles associated 
with the necessary files, so portaudio still didn't compile.  There are 
portaudio makefiles available for cygwin I found by Googling, but I 
didn't look too deeply at it, because I ran out of time and had to get 
back to work.

I'll look into it later, when I get some more time, but I thought I'd 
post now in case any of you guys already knew what it takes to compile 
portaudio under cygwin and could offer some pointers.

Hm, forgot.
Latest Cygwin (when I installed the zip utility, it updated everything 
else.  what a drag)
     including:
         gcc 3.2
         autoconf 2.57
        don't know whatever else is relevant right now
Windows XP SP 1 (still vulnerable to MSBlast! :) )
wxWindows 2.4.0 (I think you have to compile this through cygwin to be 
able to compile audacity, but it didn't get far enough to actually 
compile audacity itself)

Dave