[hatari-devel] Hatari Windows 2.4.1 release and PortMidi?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

User on Atari forum complained about Hatari Windows version not coming 
with MIDI support.  I first thought he meant some kind of build issue, 
but apparently Hatari 2.4.x Windows builds do not include PortMidi support.

(I checked that PortMidi lib is missing from Hatari 64-bit Windows zip, 
and assume it's not build statically into Hatari binary.)


When I looked where PortMidi currently resides, There's now a newer 
project at GitHub, which provides only source releases (including some 
Mac M1 fixes):
	https://github.com/PortMidi/portmidi

Debian/Ubuntu are still getting it from Sourceforge, but that just 
mirrors GitHub:
	http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/


There was a GitHub project ticket about binary releases, but it was 
closed with a comment that other projects could just link portmidi 
statically:
https://github.com/PortMidi/portmidi/issues/15


Eventually I found latest (v2.0.3) Windows portmidi binary from here:
https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-portmidi

Through this:
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-portmidi

But maybe it's better to build portmidi library from sources for 
Windows, than use that?

(I have no interest in Windows, so I'm not doing it, this is just to 
help anybody who might look into it.)


FYI: All current Fedora and Debian / Ubuntu Linux distro versions have 
portmidi v1:217, with which Hatari has been tested, and the latest v2.x 
portmidi has some API changes:
https://github.com/PortMidi/portmidi/releases


	- Eero