Re: sfront builds for WIN32?

From: Michel Jullian (mj@exbang.com)
Date: Sat Aug 21 1999 - 11:29:42 EDT


Richard Dobson wrote:

> I've installed the new code set, and after copying the changes I had
> already done, sfront has compiled, and created a correct sa.c for the
> 'min' example, creating a correct soundfile.

Well done ! That UWIN thing was a pain.

> I will document the WIN32 changes in due course (they are very minor) -
> and can set up a page on my website with VC++v5 project files.

I vote for it. An executable would be welcome too.

> However, I have one proposal regarding the LIBDIR mechanism. I don't
> like the way it is hard-coded into the sfront executable. As I am
> especially interested in the file format code and real-time audio
> things, the library files are on my list of files to fiddle with. I
> would much prefer to read LIBDIR from an environment variable (such as
> "SFRONT_LIBDIR"), or even have an sfront commandline flag as well as an
> override. Without this, it is impractical to post an exectutable for
> download as users would have to reproduce my file path.

Good idea.

> Great work on sfront, folks - this thing will run and run!

Oh yes, it certainly will ! I for one am impatient to give it a try.

When a future version of SFront will spit out realtime win32 C code (vst2
hopefully, John Wawrzynek can contact me for info/assistance regarding this),
it will be very interesting to compare the compiled code's performances with
all those other realtime modular soft synths (Generator/Reaktor, Vaz,
DirectCsound...) flourishing on PC. Once SFront will be really fine-tuned, I
would expect better performance because of the "hard-wired" nature of the C
code, or is there something inherently slow in SAOL ? (I must say I haven't
been impressed by the speed of saolc ;-)

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Michel
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