Windows build (and/or instructions) not working about chromaprint HOT 4 OPEN

My main question is, why do you want to build it? If you are a developer, you should be able to investigate and fix the problem. If you just want to use it, please download the fpcalc binary from https://acoustid.org/chromaprint.

I'm not sure if anyone has ever built the library using Visual Studio. Building something with FFmpeg is not easy, there are a lot of dependencies and you need to know how to handle them.

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I want to build chromaprint because the library I'm working with (PyAcoustID) requires libchromaprint.dll, not just the fpcalc binary, but as far as I can tell, libchromaprint.dll isn't being distributed anywhere.

I tried building with make now, to no avail, the same error is thrown. I hadn't tried this before simply because I wasn't aware it was an option and had assumed it was just a documentation issue. The reason for that is the same why I'm having a hard time investigating this - I'm not too experienced with CMake/C++ in general, this is the first time I'm looking into CMake/building C++ programs with any sort of depth.

Is there a different, easier way to get ahold of libchromaprint.dll, and if no, can you please provide me with advice as to what could be going wrong with my build?

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Pyacoustid can use fpcalc.exe, see https://github.com/beetbox/pyacoustid/blob/master/acoustid.py#L354

Using that is the best option.

I don't distribute chromaprint.dll specifically because it's not straight forward to build a standalone dll that can be linked into other programs but does not have any other dependencies on it's own.

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@twynb there was a problem in pyacoustid, now it is working (after beetbox/pyacoustid#79).
This issue can be closed.

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