In Linux, Makefiles can be used to cross-compile with the MingW headers, but may not be updated to generate native code at the moment. It should be fixable with some effort. Autotools should build and install it as `vgmstream-cli` instead (see the Audacious section). Some Linux distributions like Arch Linux include pre-patched vgmstream with most libraries, you may want that instead (see: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vgmstream-kode54-git/).
**With MSVC**: To build in Visual Studio, run *./init-build.bat*, open *./vgmstream_full.sln* and compile. To build from the command line, run *./build.bat*.
The build script will automatically handle obtaining dependencies and making the project changes listed in the foobar2000 section (you may need to get some PowerShell .NET packages).
You can also call MSBuild directly in the command line (see the foobar2000 section for dependencies and examples)
FDK-AAC/QAAC can be safely disabled by removing *VGM_USE_MP4V2* and *VGM_USE_FDKAAC* in the compiler/linker options and the project dependencies, as FFmpeg is used instead to support their codecs.
You can also manually use the command line to compile with MSBuild, if you don't want to touch the .vcxproj files, register VS after trial, get PowerShell dependencies for the build script, or only have VC++/MSBuild tools.
Windows CMD example for foobar2000:
```
prompt $P$G$_$S
set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\usr\bin;%PATH%
set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin;%PATH%
Requires the dev version of Audacious (and dependencies), automake/autoconf, and gcc/make (C++11). It must be compiled and installed into Audacious, where it should appear in the plugin list as "vgmstream".
The plugin needs Audacious 3.5 or higher. New Audacious releases can break plugin compatibility so it may not work with the latest version unless adapted first.
libvorbis and libmpg123 will be used if found, while FFmpeg and other external libraries aren't enabled at the moment, thus some formats won't work (build scripts need to be fixed).
Take note of other plugins stealing extensions (see README). To change Audacious's default priority for vgmstream you can make with CFLAG `AUDACIOUS_VGMSTREAM_PRIORITY n` (where `N` is number with 10=lowest)
To update vgmstream it's probably easiest to remove the `vgmstream` folder and start again from "vgmstream build" step, since updates often require a full rebuild anyway.
Support for some codecs is done with external libs, instead of copying their code in vgmstream. There are various reasons for this:
- each lib may have complex or conflicting ways to compile that aren't simple to duplicate
- their sources can be quite big and undesirable to include in full
- libs usually only compile with either GCC or MSVC, while vgmstream supports both compilers, so linking to the generated binary is much easier
- not all licenses used by libs may allow to copy their code
- simplifies maintenance and updating
They are compiled in their own sources, and the resulting binary is linked by vgmstream using a few of their symbols.
Currently only Windows builds can use external libraries, as vgmstream only includes generated 32-bit DLLs, but it should be fixable for others systems with some effort (libs are enabled on compile time). Ideally vgmstream could use libs compiled as static code (thus eliminating the need of DLLs), but involves a bunch of changes.
Below is a quick explanation of each library and how to compile binaries from them. Unless mentioned, their latest version should be ok to use, though included DLLs may be a bit older.
### libvorbis
Adds support for Vorbis (inside Ogg and custom containers).
vgmstream's FFmpeg builds remove many unnecessary parts of FFmpeg to trim down its gigantic size, and are also built with the "vgmstream-" preffix (to avoid clashing with other plugins). Current options can be seen in `ffmpeg_options.txt`.
FSB uses two incompatible, older libcelt versions. Both libraries export the same symbols so normally can't coexist together. To get them working we need to make sure symbols are renamed first. This may be solved in various ways:
- using dynamic loading (LoadLibrary) but for portability it isn't an option
- It may be possible to link+rename using .def files
- Linux/Mingw's objcopy to (supposedly) rename DLL symbols
- Use GCC's preprocessor to rename functions on compile
- take the .dlls from celt-x.x.x/libcelt/.libs, and rename libcelt.dll to libcelt-0061.dll and libcelt-0110.dll respectively.
- Finally the includes. libcelt gives "celt.h" "celt_types.h" "celt_header.h", but since we renamed a few functions we have a simpler custom .h with minimal renamed symbols.
