Help With A Compiling Exercise

Hey folks. As an exercise, i'm trying to make a build of the ALAC codec on a 64bit Windows computer. I'm using GCC via MinGW, and actually have no idea where to start.

The source to ALAC (Apple's Lossless Encoder) is here -

http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/alac/trunk/


I'm trying to build the codec (as stated). How would i accomplish this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

>>9
yeah, those are textual variables that expand to commands (that you yourself could type if you wanted to). You might want to try to compile some stuff by hand at the command prompt. And then learn how to write a Makefile for your own small projects to automate the process. It's easier to get this stuff on the small scale. Makefiles for large projects can become very complicated.