Re: [Audacity-devel] Plugins and installer

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

On Thursday 25 August 2005 04:07 pm, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> You hotdog! I'd just sent my "well there are so many..." email when I
> got yours. Looks like Steve's script mods did make them all build
> without any extra coding (I hope). Sadly, none of them show up in the
> effects menus, so I don't think it's just the missing fft lib. I'll
> download Steve's latest release and try building them with MSVC, to see
> if that works better.

Yeah, getting Steve's to build is going to be a bit trickier.  The build uses 
automake/autoconf, which is supposed to support cross-compiling, but it still 
builds .la files (yes Steve, if you're following this, I checked in .libs and 
it was just symlinks).  He also uses some POSIX stuff (or maybe it's just 
plain UNIX?).  I think I'll have more luck if I can get the source to 
cygwin.dll, which provides the posix api implemented on top of win32api.  I 
looked pretty hard for the source to cygwin.dll on the cygwin website, I'll 
look harder.  I don't even know if the source to that library is available.  
If not, anybody know any other posix libraries built on the win32api I could 
use?  Also, just getting fftw to build is tricky for the same reasons, and 
it'd be nice if I had a fortran cross-compiler.

Is there a program you can run to see what the dll's depend on?  Or to confirm 
that they are dll's, at least?  If they are dll's, then I have all their 
dependencies built somewhere, and I can send those up if any are missing.  In 
the end, I went into the .libs directory and ran a for loop on each .o file 
with a gcc command to make them dll's.  It was a bit hackish, heh.  I told 
myself "this'll never work, but it's what I've got to try right now".

To be honest, Vaughan, I think it'll be worth while to see if I can just get 
the cross-compiler building these plugins.  If you still want to make MSVC 
builds, it's up to you, but there's a definite advantage to getting gcc to 
build them for Winders, because it uses all the same makefiles and stuff, so 
when I get one built, I'll have them all built.  (and there's a good 
possibility that whatever changes I have to make will work in 
msys/mingw/cygwin anyway, so others can build without needing Linux and a 
cross-compiler)  If you make MSVC builds, the way I understand it you have to 
do each one, there's no way to just do a whole slew of them at once.  And I'm 
getting a handle on cross-compiling.  :)

Dave

> -Vaughan
>
> Dave Fancella wrote:
> >On Thursday 25 August 2005 07:15 am, Richard Ash wrote:
> >>Somone else had the same idea but never finished it - they images
> >>concerned aren't linked anywhere in the manual! So I've deleted them from
> >>the zip archive, and put the new version up.
> >> 
> >> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/audacity-manual-1.2.3-r1.zi
> >>p
> >
> >Heh.  I saw your other post, I'll make sure to be retrieving the latest
> > file mentioned.  :)
> >
> >>Oh, and the cmt.dll seems to work fine in stock audacity-1.2.3 under win
> >>2000. It does make a hellish long effects menu though - several screens
> >>worth. This is split up a bit more in 1.2.4.
> >
> >Here's another one to try:
> >http://www.davefancella.com/swh.zip
> >
> >(I'll bet you can guess whose those are :)  )
> >
> >These may require the fft library I built that's not in the zip file.  You
> >*may* want to do this on a test machine or something.  At the very least,
> >backup your plugins directory and move it off to the side or something,
> >there's a whole slew of plugins in that zip file I just linked.  Anyway,
> > if you need the fftw library, you can either download it or post here
> > that you need it.  Only some of the plugins need it, iirc.
> >
> >In any case, either they'll work or they won't, and you should know pretty
> >quickly.  :)
> >
> >I guess next I'll see if I can cross-compile Audacity itself.  ;)  I've
> > always wanted to do that...
> >
> >Dave
>
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