FLAC for Windows

FLAC, short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless. Thus, audio compressed in FLAC has no loss in quality. With digital storage getting cheaper everyday, it makes sense to copy or preserve sound in the near-perfect quality. I'm compiling FLAC with MinGW because it's needed by some programs I want to build.

1. I installed MinGW, of course. I also instaled NASM because it was suggested during configure. I just downloaded yasm-1.2.0-win32.exe and renamed it as nasm.exe.





2. I think it's not necessary, but I compiled zlib and libiconv.

   
   
   

3. I built OGG.

   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw
   make
   make install

   
   
   

4. Then, I built FLAC.

   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-sse

   
   
   

   The --enable-sse option is for SSE-capable CPU's which mean nearly all new desktop CPU's today. I began make.

   
   
   

   make

   
   
   

   I got errors about SIZE_T_MAX. To fix it, I just changed the line 38 in flac-1.2.1/include/share/alloc.h

   
   
   

   # if defined _MSC_VER || defined __MINGW32__

   
   
   

   I got another error compiling examples/cpp/encode/file/main.cpp. To fix it, I inserted the following line after <stdlib.h> on line 33.

   
   
   

   #include <string.h>

   
   
   

   I got no more error. I installed flac.

   
   
   

   make install