Hello,

I have downloaded LAME 3.93.1. I now need to compile it. I have Visual C++ 6.0 installed on my Win XP Pro system. How do I compile this version of Lame using Visual C++ 6.0?

Thank you.

Well, I know this is probably not the answer you want to hear, but you can download a MSVC 6.0 compile from Gabriel's website and I don't see the point in compiling something if you don't have the knowledge to do so (not to speak of even hacking on the actual code).

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I appreciate your response, but I'd like to learn how.

You'll need the nasm binary from here: http://ww1.tiki.ne.jp/~hino/nasmw098_sse2.zip. Place the nasmw.exe in the libmp3lame directory, IIRC(?).

Open up the MSVC IDE, load the 'lame_vc6.dsw' project file, select the project to build (a release_NASM version), and then go build it!!

Shouldn't be much more trouble than that!!

Thanks, john33, for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'm off to do that now.

just wondering... would adding cpu-specific arguements to a gcc compile make lame any faster?

some of them... yeh there is a thread here somwhere about that. I know that passing -mfpmath=sse for athlons actually slows things down, off the top of my head. -march=pentium3 or something should work well.