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

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 23/08/2022 à 00:31, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> 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

Hi

in the case of Mageia or Fedora that I use to build the windows binary 
with mingw, all major libs (zlib, readline, png, sdl, ...) are already 
provided packaged for the distro and mingw, so there's no need to 
compile the libs from source to create a mingw dll or dll.a

Unfortunately, I didn't find yet a recent compiled version of portmidi 
and as Christian pointed, it takes some time to make a working version 
of it.

Maybe I will do it one day for another release, but not enough time at 
the moment to look into this.

Nicolas