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Pd is easily built with free tools on Microsoft Windows, and recently with the creation of the mingw-get tool, its much easier to get started. While you could probably use the most current versions of all of the packages below, the links provided are versions that are known to work.
Cygwin
Cygwin is relatively easy to install and provides a much better working environment for things like subversion. MinGW lacks full support for some of the GNU utils like rsync, git, svn, etc., so install Cygwin's version.
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Download setup.exe and run it to install Cygwin. Install it in the default location.
Once you get to the Select Packages screen, click the button on the upper right corner labeled View and change it to Full. Now find git, make, openssh, patch, rsync, sed, svn, zip, and unzip and make sure they are set to install. This is represented by a version number to be installed instead of Skip.
MinGW
Download the MinGW package installer and run it:
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Accept the GPLv3 and click Next
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Choose the Use pre-packaged repository catalogues and click Next
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Install into the default location: C:\MinGW and click Next
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Check all Components (MinGW Compiler Suite, MSYS Basic System, and MinGW Developer Toolkit). and click Next
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wait for the installer to download and install everything, now you have a working MinGW install and MSYS shell.
Configuring MSYS
For the next steps, you will be using the MSYS shell that was installed from the MSYS installer. You can launch it from the Desktop shortcut or Start --> Programs --> MinGW --> MinGW Shell. Once you are in the MSYS shell, you need to make /usr/local by running:
mkdir /usr/local
Now edit C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc\fstab using a good text editor (vim is now included in MinGW, Wordpad will work but not Notepad), or from within the MinGW/MSYS shell, vim /etc/fstab. In that file, make sure you have these two lines (case is important!):
c:/MinGW/ /mingw c:/MinGW/ /usr/local
Then quit all MSYS shells, and restart an MSYS shell, and check with the mount command that both of the above directories are mounted. To do that, run mount. You should see these lines within the rest:
... c:\MinGW on /mingw type user (binmode) c:\MinGW on /usr/local type user (binmode) ...
You can add MinGW and MSYS to the PATH so that Windows tools like cmd.exe can find them. For how to setup the environment variables for MSYS, check out Figure 10 and after in Max Berger's Setting up the compiler.
MinGW extras
We need some packages that are not part of the default install, but are included in MinGW. In the MinGW/MSYS shell, run:
mingw-get install mingw-utils pexports cygutils msys-wget msys-zip msys-unzip \
msys-libregex msys-texinfo msys-gmp msys-libgmp msys-bash \
expat libexpat zlib libz gmp bzip2
Binaries from MinGW and GTK+
The GTK+ project provides a number of binaries for Windows. We use a few of them here. Download and install them into C:\MinGW using the MinGW/MSYS shell. The easiest way to do this is with with MinGW/MSYS shell, by running these commands:
cd /tmp wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-bin.tar.gz wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-dev.tar.gz tar --directory /mingw -xzf mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-bin.tar.gz tar --directory /mingw -xzf mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-dev.tar.gz wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.1.0-win32.exe mv yasm-1.1.0-win32.exe /mingw/bin/yasm.exe wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.25-1_win32.zip wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-dev_0.25-1_win32.zip wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.28/glib_2.28.1-1_win32.zip wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.28/glib-dev_2.28.1-1_win32.zip wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip unzip pkg-config_0.25-1_win32.zip -d /mingw unzip pkg-config-dev_0.25-1_win32.zip -d /mingw unzip glib_2.28.1-1_win32.zip -d /mingw unzip glib-dev_2.28.1-1_win32.zip -d /mingw unzip gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip -d /mingw
The last step will prompt you to replace /mingw/share/locale/locale.alias, say Yes.
Reboot
Just in case, it is good to reboot now. Sometimes, you might get an error about cc1.exe missing libgmp-10.dll. It seems to be fixed by rebooting.
copying libgmp-10.dll for cc1.exe
Sometimes, even after rebooting, cc1.exe still gives an error about a missing libgmp-10.dll and other DLLs. You can test this by running ./configure in libtheora. A kludge to fix it is to copy the DLLs into place right next to cc1.exe. At the time of writing this document, it worked like this:
cd /mingw/bin cp libgmp-10.dll libmpc-2.dll libmpfr-1.dll libintl-8.dll /mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/ cp libintl-8.dll libiconv-2.dll /mingw/mingw32/bin
ASIO SDK
First, download the ASIO SDK. You have to agree to Steinberg's license, then submit an email address, then they'll send you the download URL in an email. Uncompress asiosdk2.2.zip into path/to/pd/asio so that the files are in path/to/pd/asio/ASIOSDK2.
QuickTime SDK
Gem uses QuickTime on Windows for reading and writing video files. You need an Apple ID in order to log in and download the quicktimesdk.zip. First login by clicking this link, then once logged in, click this link to download the file: QuickTime 7.3 SDK for Windows. Once you have it, unzip it, then double-click the QuickTimeSDK.exe and install using all of the defaults.
Install Inno Setup package building
Inno Setup/ISTool
Inno Setup is free installer generator for Windows. ISTool is a nicer IDE for Inno scripts. This is used to assemble the Pd-extended installer.
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ispack-5.2.3.exe downloads and installs everything for you.
Building from SVN '/sources'
There are many libraries needed for building Pd libraries that are not yet available via mingw-get or binaries. The best way to get these currently is to build them from source. For Pd-extended, you can get the sources from SVN and run this script to build it all:
cd pure-data svn co https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/sources cd sources ./build-libs-on-mingw.sh
This will run for a while, and if it completes successfully, it will have installed all of the libraries needed for Pd-extended. It should be safe to run ./build-libs-on-mingw.sh again if something failed.
Building Pd
Now you're ready to start building Pd. First, you'll need to start with GettingPdSource, then you can move onto BuildingPd or BuildingPdExtended.
Updating this Process
There are definitely some improvements that can be made to this up build process. MinGW is widely used, but its not widely standardized. So many people have many different ways of building common libs for MinGW. This process is an effort to unify them, the biggest recent development along these lines is mingw-get. As of this writing, this process can successfully build ffmpeg with many codecs. The last huge gap is gmerlin-avdecoder, which is used by [readanysf~] and Gem. There are a number of additional codecs that are not yet part of this process, for example openjpeg builds but doesn't seem to work, then there is libgsm and quite a few other codec libraries that ffmpeg and gmerlin-avdecoder can use. You can contribute by getting these building and working on MinGW and posting your results on pd-dev.
Libraries
Here are some documents that look to have some very useful info, but has not yet been incorporated into this process:
