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The other thing I've noticed is with Linux boxen, usually you're expected to run some magical autoconfigure script that abuses sh or whatever to give a custom makefile. This is completely useless on win32, as cmd is not sh. Not that the documentation mentioned anything of how to compile under win32 - I had a readme file telling me to do the usual "./configure" "make" "make install", and a win32 folder containing some MSVC projects.

I would have actually thought reliably building from source to be *easier* under win32, as you have only two target enviroments (the 9x branch and the NT branch), and if you aim for 9x then it will usually run as-is under NT. Whereas with linux, if the typical autoconf script is anything to go by, you can end up with two platforms which do not have a single header or library in common (ok, so that's exaggerating a bit).

I did first google for binaries, but it appears all there is precompiled from 1.1.1 is oggenc, and I was looking for the extra binaries as well (oggdec, vorbiscomment, etc). Which apparently are not in demand.

With problem #6, I did take a look at the code, and decided I don't know anough about C++ to fix it (I did try the obvious add a semicolon, but I think the bug is further up in the code). What I didn't post was a later problem #7, wherein I discovered some unresolved imports relating to theora (found when looking to see if *any* of the tools would compile).