Re: [fluid-dev] Making 64bit Fluidsynth

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Wednesday 27 October 2010, Dan Dietzer wrote:
> Can someone give me an idea of what I am missing trying to buld 
> Fluidsynth for windows? I am using Cmake to generate the config files. 
[...] 
> I start MSYS and go into the Fluidsynth/build directory. When I enter 
> 'make' nothing happens -- I am just returned to the prompt. Even 'make 
> help' does not show the available modules.

You don't need MSYS to build FluidSynth using CMake in Windows. MSYS was 
needed only to run "configure" and other auto-tools programs and scripts. I 
don't use it, so I can't provide any advice other than removing it to save 
disk space and headaches.

MinGW provides the compilers, utils, and a gnumake port: a program named 
"mingw32-make.exe" that behaves a bit different than the make command provided 
by MSYS. You need to instruct CMake to generate the correct Makefiles, either  
with the command line interface using the parameter "-G" (generator), or in a 
much simpler way running the GUI interface (cmake-gui). The first time you 
press the "configure" button, or after removing the cache, it asks for the 
output type.

Don't forget to read the FluidSynth Wiki:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/BuildingWithCMake

Regards,
Pedro