flac dev - Jan 2013 - Anyone tried building FLAC with MSVC?

Hi all,

I've been struggling for several weeks to get Microsoft Visual Studio 
2005 to build FLAC. MinGW worked fine, but the resulting binary didn't 
support Cyrillic or Greek characters, so I thought MSVC might cut it.

Anyway, I'm not a very good programmer, but I got it working. Probably 
it's of use to tell what I did
1) Compile ogg and get the library and include tree in the FLAC 
directory tree (that's in the README)
2) Install NASM (that's in the README too)
3) Install a platform SDK (I chose the one for XP SP2)
4) Set MSVC target to Release
5) Add alloc.h to the grabbag_static source files
6) Replace all occurrences of static inline with static __inline
7) Tell the linker to ignore msvcrt.lib
8) Replace all occurrences of %" PRIu64 " with %I64u (I'm not sure
whether that is correct)
9) Uninline all (non-static) inlined function in bitreader.c and 
bitwriter.c (otherwise the linker complains)

As I said, I'm not a very good programmer so I'm not sure whether any of
the above changes might induce other problems. Anyway, the resulting 
flac binary doesn't accept Cyrillic or Greek either (just like the flac 
1.2.1 release), so I guess it's not compiler related.

Anyway, I'll stick with MinGW in the future :)

On 13-01-24 2:10 PM, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> 6) Replace all occurrences of static inline with static __inline
This should be done with a global define for 'inline'.
> 7) Tell the linker to ignore msvcrt.lib
Visual Studio tells you to do this, but it's wrong. This probably comes
from the libogg and flac projects using different runtime libraries.
Make sure you're using release ogg with release flac, and if it still
complains, change one of the projects to match the other.j

Thanks for trying out the project files!

 -r

On 1/25/2013 06:10, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been struggling for several weeks to get Microsoft Visual Studio 
> 2005 to build FLAC. MinGW worked fine, but the resulting binary didn't 
> support Cyrillic or Greek characters, so I thought MSVC might cut it.
This really has nothing to do with MSVC or MinGW. flac is a plain ANSI
application under Windows, you need to set your system locale
appropriately for each character set.


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Ralph Giles wrote:
> On 13-01-24 2:10 PM, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> 
> > 6) Replace all occurrences of static inline with static __inline
> 
> This should be done with a global define for 'inline'.
+1

Specifically, something like

   #define inline __inline

should go in an appropriate place in include/share/compat.h
and any file that needs inline should include that compatibility
header.
> > 7) Tell the linker to ignore msvcrt.lib
> 
> Visual Studio tells you to do this, but it's wrong. This probably comes
> from the libogg and flac projects using different runtime libraries.
> Make sure you're using release ogg with release flac, and if it still
> complains, change one of the projects to match the other.j
> 
> Thanks for trying out the project files!
+1

We're workng towards a release and getting the MSVC project files
up-to-date and working is highly desirable.

Cheers,
Erik
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