Another option would be to use a cross platform app layer wrapper (base stuff, not gui) that handles the pain for us. OpenFrameworks, for instance, uses
Poco which greatly eases threading, etc between Windows
& Unix. Of course, it's a C++ library, so that's probably a different story with the Pd core ...
Short
digression-- after writing the Flext mingw build tutorial I've become much
more
understanding of Sevy's approach of actively not supporting Windows. I
don't
agree with it, as I think so much of Pd already runs adequately on Windows
to
warrant pd~, too, in order to offer free software to as many users as possible.
But
his was certainly a valid, compelling, and time-saving approach. :)
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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika