Using the SynthEdit SDK

with

Eclipse / CDT / MinGW

This is what I did to get Eclipse, CDT, and MinGW working with the SynthEdit Software Development Kit. I make no guarantees. Use at your own risk. Realize too that Cygwin and MinGW are not the same. I recommend that you do not use Cygwin because linking to their libraries will infect your work with the GPL. Nothing wrong with the GPL, but if you don't want to be legally bound to open up your source code make sure the linker is not linking to Cygwin files. You should also ask Jeff McClintock if he wants his SDK source code GPL'ed. I bet he doesn't, but I didn't bother to ask. MinGW on the other hand has taken this matter into account, and you should read and understand what they have done and decide whether that is going to work for you:

http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-license

This tutorial will “put the cookies on a shelf low enough that the kids can get them”, so if you are a seasoned veteran and I say something incredibly obvious, or maybe even stupid, please bear with me. Who knows, maybe some high school student will do their science fair project using this stuff. These are not trade secrets. I'd like to think of it more like a SynthEdit development party.

Bill Steidtmann – circa Feb 2006

Special Note – If you are having trouble seeing the screenshots in your browser, try right-clicking on the image and, in Firefox for example, select “View Image”. The browser will show just the image at it's full resolution, and should be quite clear. Unfortunately Internet Explorer (5) does not have this. My advice: Stop using Internet Explorer. You could also right-click and Copy the image (onto the clipboard), and then paste it into a viewer, like Irfanview for example. Yet another solution in FireFox is an Image Zoom extension. The point is this: The resolution is there, even if your browser renders it poorly. Another option is to use the PDF version(s) of these pages, which are very clear and you can zoom in for a closer look.

Table of Contents

1. What is Eclipse and Why?
2. What You Need
3. Installation
4. Running Eclipse for the First Time
5. Compiling the SynthEdit SDK
6. Compiling an Example Module: se_gain
7. Debugging Part 1 - Eclipse and GDB
8. Debugging Part 2 - BOO
9. Compiling the Release Build
10. Errors

Next: What is Eclipse and Why?

By Bill Steidtmann