2.6.3 Compiling with Visual Studio Express 2008 on Windows XP

These instructions were used to compile Marsyas using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express IDE in Windows XP

1. Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ Studio Express 2008 from http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc. (you might need to install Microsoft Silverlight to view the webpage).
2. Download and install Microsoft Direct X SDK from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/aa937788.aspx. These instructions worked with installing Direct X August 2008 (DXSDK_Aug08.exe).
3. Download and install the CMake 2.6 binary using the Win32 installer from http://www.cmake.org.
4. Downlaod and install the Tortoise SVN GUI client from http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/.
5. The Tortoise client is integrated with Windows so right clik on your desktop and checkout Marsyas as described in the basic installation instructions Compiling.
6. Launch cmake and specify the source and build directory you want to use for Marsyas for example c:\marsyas\src and c:\marsyas\build. Press configure until all the options are grey and then click ok
7. Go to the c:\marsyas\build directory where you will find a Visual Studio project file named marsyas that you can open with the Visual Studio 9 Express IDE to compile Marsyas.
8. The binaries are created in build\bin\Release or build\bin\Debug depending on which build configuration is used.

The following optional steps can be used to compile graphical user interface tools for Marsyas using the Qt toolkit:

1. Down the Qt for Windows open source edition from http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/. Make sure you download the source code rather the .exe installer which only works for the MinGW compiler rather than Visual Studio.
2. Extract the files to a directory (make sure the directory name does not contain spaces as the Qt configuration gets confused if that's the ccase). I used c:\qt\4.4.1.
3. Start the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt and go to the directory where you installed Qt and then run configure.exe. This will take a few minutes. Once configuration is complete you can compile Qt using nmake which take a while (about 1 hour on my slow virtual machine)

             cd c:\qt\4.4.1
             configure.exe
             nmake
   

   With Qt 4.4.1 there is a glitch so compilation will stop with an error about MathExtras.h. You will need to comment out the line #include<xmath.h> from c:\qt\4.4.0\src\3rdparty\webkit\JavaScriptCore\wtf\MathExtras.h. This is a known error and that seems to be the proposed solution.

Python: Installed by default on Linux and MacOS X machines; Windows users may install it from this site. Marsyas contains some very useful scripts which are written in Python.