Just for the archive and hopefully for others like me, strugling with their first externals.
I have written a small tutorial about how to compile an external with Dev-C++. I don't go into the programming itself, since there is a very good tutorial on http://iem.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/ about that. Compiler options and code to export the setup function are not covered there, however. So that's why I put this on my website, at
http://www.youngmusic.org/wiki/index.php/PD-linking-tutorial
Greetings,
yvan vander sanden