Windows port?

[ioma8]

Hi there. I am lifelong Freewheeling user (since ca 2008). I know this projects is basically abandoned. Since FW is using mostly cross-platform libraries (eg. SDL) my question is how hard would it be to port FW for Windows platforms?

Also I have long not heard of JP Mercury, the original author of this soft. Is there any info about him where he is in life now?

[bill-auger]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:36:37 -0800 Jakub wrote: I know this projects is basically abandoned.

the sourceforge project is effectively abandoned; because JP's sourceforge account is the only one with authority to publish code or releases to sourceforge - freewheeling has a rather nostalgic community which would not allow the software to be abandoned - in any case, that would have been 8 years ago, before the project was established on github since then, the software has been maintained continuously and available in mainstream distros (debian, ubuntu, etc) - as it was 20 years ago, that is still the easiest way to install freewheeling

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:36:37 -0800 Jakub wrote: how hard would it be to port FW for Windows platforms?

freewheeling audio interfaces to the OS via JACK - IIRC it was always possible using the windows port of JACK - depending on how well-maintianed the windows port of JACK is, the io-specific audio code would need to be re-implemented

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:36:37 -0800 Jakub wrote: Is there any info about him where he is in life now?

i tried to contact him at three different email addresss - they all bounced - i can only refer to the past discussion when the community noticed (Oct and Nov 2016) that he had not responded to the mailing list for some time prior https://sourceforge.net/p/freewheeling/mailman/freewheeling-user/?viewmonth=201611&style=flat

[bill-auger]

related or duplicate of open discussion #27 ... in which i suggested a LiveISO of librazik as the easiest way to try freewheeling