Hey all,
I’m working on a senior design project for university, making a graphics renderer react to user input midi messages. We’re using SDL2 for our rendering engine / GUI, and Juce to handle midi events.
Our main editor that everyone is using is Sublime text, since we have 2 members on Mac, and 3 on PC. We’re running builds through the integrated command line there.
I’ve been able to make a console application to drive the header file that gets the necessary midi information, and turn it into standard C++ strings and such, so non-juce Code can make calls.
My plan was to make a static library (or dynamic, whatever works), and pass that to my PC devs, and have my Mac devs build there own version in Xcode, so that everyone gets the necessary OS specific midi libraries. So, here are my questions:
-do myLib.lib files work outside of Visual studio? both the Visual studio and the Codeblocks version of the static library project made with projucer build with .lib, and I was expecting a myLib.a file.
-For g++ command line args, I though -L directory would tell the linker to search and link in the specified directory, but I’m still getting errors asking for specific juce headers for each module.
-When those headers and module folders are included (which seems to defeat the purpose of the static library, maybe I’m not linking it correctly?), I get the error
"include/juce_core/system/juce_TargetPlatform.h:40:33: error: #include expects “FILENAME” or
40 | #include JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER
| ^
This is after I throw #define JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER in my JuceHeader.h file. It seems that I need some kind of list of other platform specific includes needed to build / link, but I can’t find anything in documentation about it.
If including regular non-static juce libraries can work with adding an extra file to list platform / OS specific dependencies, that might work better for our development than multiple static libraries floating around. Maybe?
At this point, I’d really just like this project to build.
Sorry for the long post, and what probably comes down to me having a incomplete understanding of how the g++ linker works. Let me know if there are any code snippets or anything that might give my issue a bit more clarity.
Running windows 10, with Visual studio 2019, Codeblocks, and sublime text. most recent versions of minGW pulled from the msys package manager.