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.

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Well, you'll need to source code and a way to build it. And this depends on what the ALAC people use to build their code. On linux systems, people usually use a two step process, where the user will run a configure script, which will generate a makefile for the user's machine using the set of compilers and such installed on the user's machine. The user can then investigate the make file and then run it.

If this is your first time doing something like this, you might want to try with something small and simple, with few or no dependencies.