[CMake] libsndfile in winodws

[aishwarya selvaraj]

@Dan Liew
Thanks for your feedback.
Yes I was trying to proceed in that direction .
Did you find any links which could be useful ?
could you kindly share them ?
Thanks

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2 March 2017 at 12:07, aishwarya selvaraj
> <aishwaryaselvaraj1708 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all ,
> > I was trying to build my .cpp file in windows in Windows platform
> (windows
> > 10) using cmake .
> > My .cpp file makes use of two external libraries 1)armadillo 2)libsnd
> file.
> > I have written a corresponding cmakelist.txt to compile and obtain the
> > binary .
> > I was successful in doing so in Linux , when it come to Windows I obtain
> the
> > following error .
> >
> > 3>Time Elapsed 00:00:02.06
> > 2>         Current branch master is up to date.
> > 2>         No patch step for 'project_libsndfile'
> > 2>         Performing autogen step for 'project_libsndfile'
> > 2>         Performing configure step for 'project_libsndfile'
> > 2>
> > 'C:\Users\computing7\Desktop\TSM_cmake\build\lib\libsndfile\src\project_
> libsndfile\configure'
> > is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > 2>         operable program or batch file.
>
> Above is your clue. Your build could not run `configure`. Your problem
> is most likely in
>
> ```
> ExternalProject_Add(project_libsndfile
>     GIT_REPOSITORY     https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile.git
>     PREFIX              lib/libsndfile
>     CONFIGURE_COMMAND   <SOURCE_DIR>/configure
>     BUILD_COMMAND       make
>     BUILD_IN_SOURCE     1
>     INSTALL_COMMAND     echo Skipping install step for libsndfile
> )
> ```
>
> Running a `configure` script is not going to work on Windows out of
> the box because libsnd uses GNU autotools which is for made for UNIX
> like operating systems. You should try and figure out how (if it's
> even possible) to build libsnd on Windows. At glance at the GitHub
> page shows they have a CMake build system but the docs say it will
> likely only work on Linux. There are some commits that mention MINGW
> so maybe it might be possible to build using the MSYS environment.
>
> Good Luck.
>



-- 
Regards,
Aishwarya Selvaraj
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