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+ Building libsndfile on Win32
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+<H1><BR>Building libsndfile on Win32</H1>
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+Note : For pre-compiled binaries for windows, both for win32 and win64, see the
+main web page.
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+There is currently only one way of building libsndfile for Win32 and Win64;
+cross compiling from Linux using the MinGW cross compiler.
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+libsndfile is written to be compiled by a compiler which supports large
+chunks of the 1999 ISO C Standard.
+Unfortunately, the microsoft compiler supports close to nothing of this
+standard and hence is not suitable for libsndfile.
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+It <b>may</b> be possible to compile libsndfile on windows using the
+ <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>
+compiler suite, but I haven't tested that and have no interest in supporting
+that.
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