[Speex-dev] [PATCH] Add Visual Studio 2008 Prject files

[Mikael Magnusson]

Alexander Chemeris wrote:
> On 11/30/07, Mikael Magnusson <mikma264 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The autotools files can also be used to build Win32 libraries using
>> mingw32 (preferably cross-compiling on GNU/Linux).
> 
> Why "preferably"? I thought they are building fine from under Win with
> MinGW.
> 

It should work on Windows with MinGW+MSYS, but it's building faster on 
GNU/Linux at least if you include the time it takes to run configure. 
Because especially configure creates a lot of processes, and process 
creation is slower on Windows compared to GNU/Linux.

>> It's currently possible to build static libs. To be able to build DLLs you
>> need to add AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL to configure.ac.
> 
> Yeah, but this static libs are not compatible with VS, afaik?
> 

No, not the static libs, but DLLs should work.

http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-msvcdll

Mikael