Hi folks,

to interrupt the greater building banter woes, I have a question of a more rudimentary manner.

Managed to set up my environment properly, check out all the source for PD and the externals, installed asio and ogg but now I am little confused as to how to simply build PD internal. The documentation points towards building an installer. I really dont need to build an installer right now I just want to compile. I tried simply running make in the src directory but aload paths were not set up hence the script bombed out early on. I didnt fancy attempting to hand craft the makefiles since I presume this would not be necessary with what I had read on the site.

I was hoping to build PD first before trying the externals. By the way the documentation is very good for stepping one through the setup of the whole business of cygwin MingW etc.. Without that level of clarity things could get very hairy !

Aside from these initial teasing problems, would people recomment me using Flext from the onset with external development. I know the pros but are there any cons? Secondly when compiling with Mingw32 how does one debug the compiled exe. What is the most convenient way to debug external development using MingW.

And finally is it a good idea to use the SndObj libraries in conjugation with PD? Are there any drawback?

all the best

Conor