[fluid-dev] Compiling on Windows - how to use --fast-render?

[Dr.Leo]

Hi,

I am new to Fluid and largely unfamiliar with C compilers. It is great 
software, congratulations!

Here are the pitfalls I ran into before successfully compiling following 
the build instructions on fluidsynth.org


1. MSVC9

I did not manage to build it. It does not even build libfluidsynth.lib. 
Is there something wrong with the SLN file? Well, cmake produced an 
error at some point that did not look serious but may have disrupted the 
build process. If anyone is interested I'll send the log files etc. 
Strangely enough, MSVC9 did not complain about a missing dsound.h etc.

2. MinGW

I was surprised to see that there is now a very convenient installer. 
And after adding c:\mingw to the system path, it worked.

First I tried to build with dsound.h from the latest wine tarball as 
mentioned in the build instructions. Fatal error. Then I used dsound.h 
from googlecode, probably from an svn repos os some DirectX related 
stuff from MS. But I did not want to install a DirectX SDK as I had read 
about critical errors affecting system stability. So that dsound.h 
version works.

In addition - and this is not mentioned in the docs - I had to copy 
sal.h into
the include dir under MinGW. Luckily I found it under MSVC9. Without it 
I would have given up.

I think it would be very useful to host a zip archive with the binaries 
on sf. If you haven't got a Win32 build environment I'd happily send you 
my .exe and .dll plus a readme file.

Also, the docs would benefit from some ore info on how to build with 
readline support and other optional libraries.

3. fast-render

I don't understand the syntax. I tried from the cmd line:

fluidsynth r3.sf2 -f=output.raw input.mid

and it just plays the midi file without writing anything. Any hint would 
be much appreciated.


Leo