[flext] Building Flext on Windows... anyone got it working?

Tue May 16 12:56:32 CEST 2017

Good stuff...

What version of MSVC are you using btw? Because I could only compile with
MingW...

Would be good to see your instructions in any case and post them to the
github...

C

On 16 May 2017 at 12:51, Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com> wrote:

> Hi Cárthach,
>
> Actually it seems not! I was on 32bbbbf4 which is from November last year,
> so I have must have missed a merge at some point.
>
> Pulling in the latest HEAD, it builds under MSYS without issue, so no need
> for another PR.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jamie
>
>
> On 16 May 2017, at 11:01, Cárthach Ó Nuanáin <carthach.onuanain at upf.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hey Jamie,
>
> Just so you know, those were the changes I made to get flext working on
> Windows with mingw a while back, in this commit:
>
> https://github.com/grrrr/flext/commit/793392df98444adef99596d4b5e895
> efae9e546b
>
> Are you on the latest commit?
>
> C
>
>
>
>
> On 16 May 2017 at 11:52, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jamie,
>> great!
>> A pull request is always good. It helps to try out things.
>> I will try to find a general solution.
>> best, Thomas
>>
>> Am 16.05.2017 um 11:50 schrieb Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:
>>
>>
>> HI again,
>>
>> I’ve now got this building and linking on Windows.
>>
>> I’ll post some instructions at some point as I had to generate a VS
>> config file and then rename it to config-win-pd-gcc.txt otherwise the build
>> system (under MSYS) generates something more like a Mac config file.
>>
>> Regarding the error below, I had to replace TimerVars<>::perffrq with
>> TimerVars::perffrq and in some places perffrq with TimerVars::perffrq. I
>> can send a pull request for this if you like? However, I think this will
>> break builds on Windows when FLEXT_INLINE is defined. A better solution
>> would be to either remove FLEXT_INLINE entirely or use the FLEXT_TEMPLATE
>> macros, but I couldn’t really understand those or get them to work.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 May 2017, at 23:03, Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks Thomas for the quick reply.
>>
>> Compiling with MSYS, I get a bit further, but it fails with:
>>
>> g++ -c  -O3  -DFLEXT_USE_SIMD -DNDEBUG -DFLEXT_EXPORTS -DFLEXT_SYS=2 -DPD
>> -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x500 -I pd-msvc/release-single -I"/c/Program Files
>> (x86)/Pd"\src -I"/c/Program Files (x86)/Pd"/src -I"/c/Program Files
>> (x86)/Pd"/include -I"/c/Program Files (x86)/Pd"/include/pd -I"/c/Program
>> Files (x86)/Pd"\flext\source\lockfree  source/fltimer.cpp -o
>> pd-msvc/release-single/fltimer.opp
>> source/fltimer.cpp: In function 'double getstarttime()':
>> source/fltimer.cpp:51:41: error: 'TimerVars' is not a template
>>      if(QueryPerformanceFrequency(&frq)) TimerVars<>::perffrq =
>> (double)frq.QuadPart;
>>                                          ^
>> source/fltimer.cpp:51:62: error: qualified-id in declaration before '='
>> token
>>      if(QueryPerformanceFrequency(&frq)) TimerVars<>::perffrq =
>> (double)frq.QuadPart;
>>                                                               ^
>> source/fltimer.cpp: In static member function 'static double
>> flext_single::GetOSTime()':
>> source/fltimer.cpp:64:8: error: 'perffrq' was not declared in this scope
>>      if(perffrq && QueryPerformanceCounter(&cnt))
>>         ^
>> source/fltimer.cpp:65:27: error: 'TimerVars' is not a template
>>          tm = cnt.QuadPart/TimerVars<>::perffrq;
>>                            ^
>> source/fltimer.cpp: In static member function 'static void
>> flext_single::Sleep(double)':
>> source/fltimer.cpp:109:8: error: 'perffrq' was not declared in this scope
>>      if(perffrq && QueryPerformanceCounter(&cnt)) {
>>         ^
>> make[1]: *** [pd-msvc/release-single/fltimer.opp] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/flext'
>> make: *** [build-release-single] Error 2
>>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> On 10 May 2017, at 22:29, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jamie,
>> i suggest to use a linux-like environment such as mingw, also providing
>> gcc and other tools.
>> I am pretty sure that the Visual Studio or whatever it is called these
>> days has changed enough to be incompatible with the project files that some
>> objects provide.
>> best, Thomas
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Grill
>> http://grrrr.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 10.05.2017 um 23:25 schrieb Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:
>>
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I asked about this a few years ago and didn’t manage to get Flext
>> building on Windows, and now I’m trying again…
>>
>> My first approach is to use nmake and the command line. This fails
>> immediately compiling flbase with:
>>
>> c:\flext\source\flstdc.h(24): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
>> file: 'cmath': No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> Has anyone managed to compile Flext on Windows in recent years? If so,
>> what’s the best approach? What extra steps are needed?
>>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
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