Re: [Jack-Devel] Jack2 patches to add mingw build target to waf scripts

Le 14 juil. 2011 à 06:41, Tim Mayberry a écrit :

> Hi Stéphane,
> 
> I've been working on a windows port of Ardour on and off for a few
> years. I believe we spoke briefly on IRC a few months ago and I
> mentioned a had a patch to the JACK2 build system to compile it for
> windows using the mingw compiler.
> 
> The Ardour port is coming along ok, I've talked with Paul and we will
> probably add support for building Ardour for Windows after Ardour 3.0
> is released and then try to work on fixing the bugs in the next
> development cycle etc. You can have a look at a few images and a short
> video here if you like: http://timbyr.net/images and
> http://timbyr.net/images/Ardour-3.0-windows-installer.ogg
> 
> I've been developing Ardour for windows by cross compiling Ardour and
> some of the library dependencies on Fedora. Fedora has packaged the
> mingw compiler and some of the libraries like Gtk+ for a while now:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW and hopefully as of Fedora 16 the
> mingw-64 compiler will be used. OpenSuse also has had MinGW packages
> for some time.
> 
> I've had a bit of time to clean up the patches for JACK2 enough that
> you may be interested in looking at them and seeing whether it is
> worth adding them to JACK2.
> 
> So I modified the waf build system and added a --dist-target flag that
> can be used to cross compile with the mingw compiler. There are also
> the flags to enable --portaudio and --winmme drivers.
> 
> I had to update waf to be able to generate the windows import
> libraries correctly, so the patches I've attached assume that you have
> first updated waf to the latest version in the 1.5 series which is
> 1.5.19.
> 
> The first two patches, 0001 and 0002 aren't related to the mingw build
> but are required to fix the waf scripts with the new version of
> waf(1.5.19), the first fixes the formatting of the configure output
> and the second fixes the build for linux, I haven't tested for Mac OS
> X, maybe similar small changes are necessary.
> 
> The 0003 patch adds the --dist-target flag and the changes necessary
> to build the client lib, server and drivers using mingw.
> 
> The 0004 patch is something I found necessary to build using mingw,
> I'm not sure why, it may be I'm not defining something correctly in
> the build but I haven't spent much time to find out.
> 
> The 0005 patch was necessary because I haven't been successful in
> cross compiling portaudio with asio support yet, because of issues
> with autotools/libtool etc. This means that if you were to use this
> patch you need to define HAVE_ASIO in the other windows build files to
> get ASIO support in the jack_portaudio driver. I'd also like to
> eventually get mingw JACK2 packages added to Fedora, which can't use
> the ASIO driver(I believe) so I think being able to compile without
> ASIO support a good idea.
> 
> Patch 0006 are changes required to get the example clients to build,
> the changes are mostly untested but fairly trivial.
> 
> These patches are against a fairly recent trunk version of JACK2 and
> should apply. I haven't done much testing of the resulting binaries
> but if I install my development version of Ardour(which includes
> JACK2) on a clean windows install and start JACK2 with something like
> $jackd.exe -S -X winmme -d portaudio then Ardour plays back audio OK.
> I haven't tested anything to do with midi yet, sorry.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Tim.

All patches committed on a git "mingw" branch and pushed here: http://repo.or.cz/w/jack2.git/shortlog/refs/heads/mingw

Required waf 1.5.19 version still not added. 

Testing welcome.

Stephane

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