Compilng C/C++ makefile files under Windows (XP)

Question

I'm trying to use a Python library (pyMedia) that has some non-Python requisites libraries. (libogg, libvorbis, liblame, and libfaad2 - this isn't relevant to the question specifically).

libogg requires you to manually compile it from the source and comes with a makefile. I have GCC installed for Windows. How would I go about compiling this?

Answer 1

Get cygwin . It's the unix environment for windows, along with the Autotools (including make) toolchain.

Answer 2

MinGW can be used to compile under Windows. Add the binary to the PATH environment variable and you can use mingw32-make to compile using the Makefile .