Progress, but still no joy. Acquired 2.2.2 source code, went through instructions in compile.txt and got Audacity 2.2.2 running, but with the following faults: 1) Adding help didn’t work “The Manual does not appear to be installed”. 2) When I try to record, I get a messaage window pop-up: “Error opening sound device. Try changing the audio host, recording device and the project sample rate.” I can open .AUP files, play back and edit. In Audio Host I have MME, Windows DirectSound and Windows WASAP. I can see the microphone in all three host selections. When I “Start Monitoring”, I get no response from the mic and no indication of audio signal. Once Start Monitoring has been selected, if I click the monitoring button again it always says “Stop Monitoring”, and will not change statuse back to “Start Monitoring”.
This is a 64-bit Windows 10 installation that has been running Audacity 2.2.2 for a couple of months with no problems.
Do I need to send the Diags Report?
FFmpeg and LAME installations went OK.
There was 1 error: Error 506 error MSB3721: The command “msgfmt -o “C:\Audacity-2.2.2\win\Release\Languages\af\Audacity.mo” …....\locale\af.po” exited with code 1. C:\Audacity-2.2.2\win\Projects\locale\po.targets 45
There were 553 warnings: Here’s a sampling:
Warning 1 warning C4996: 'strdup': The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, use the ISO C++ conformant name: _strdup. See online help for details. C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libflac\src\libFLAC++\metadata.cpp 696
Warning 2 warning C4244: 'return' : conversion from 'const __int64' to 'off_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libflac\src\libFLAC\metadata_iterators.c 579
Warning 3 warning C4244: '+=' : conversion from 'const __int64' to 'unsigned int', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libflac\src\libFLAC\metadata_iterators.c 1112
Warning 4 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from '__int64' to 'unsigned int', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libflac\src\libFLAC\metadata_iterators.c 1124
Warning 5 warning C4244: '-=' : conversion from 'const __int64' to 'unsigned int', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libflac\src\libFLAC\metadata_iterators.c 1147
Warning 6 warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\field.c 429
Warning 7 warning C4013: 'dup' undefined; assuming extern returning int C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\file.c 466
Warning 8 warning C4013: 'dup2' undefined; assuming extern returning int C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\file.c 470
Warning 9 warning C4013: 'close' undefined; assuming extern returning int C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\file.c 471
Warning 10 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\frame.c 288
Warning 11 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\frame.c 305
Warning 12 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\frame.c 373
Warning 13 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'id3_ucs4_t' to 'id3_latin1_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\latin1.c 115
Warning 14 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'long' to 'id3_byte_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\render.c 90
Warning 15 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'long' to 'id3_byte_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\render.c 91
Warning 16 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'long' to 'id3_byte_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\render.c 92
Warning 17 warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 311
Warning 18 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 481
Warning 19 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 496
Warning 20 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 530
Warning 21 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 537
Warning 22 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\tag.c 555
Warning 23 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'id3_ucs4_t' to 'id3_utf16_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\utf16.c 117
Warning 24 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'id3_ucs4_t' to 'id3_utf8_t', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libid3tag\utf8.c 215
Warning 25 warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\fixed.c 63
Warning 26 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned short', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\frame.c 229
Warning 27 warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\frame.c 318
Warning 28 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\frame.c 403
Warning 29 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 164
Warning 30 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 408
Warning 31 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 415
Warning 32 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 423
Warning 33 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 446
Warning 34 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 456
Warning 35 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer12.c 461
Warning 36 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 527
Warning 37 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned short', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 536
Warning 38 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned short', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 537
Warning 39 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned short', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 538
Warning 40 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned short', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 539
Warning 41 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 550
Warning 42 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 567
Warning 43 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 574
Warning 44 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 580
Warning 45 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 582
Warning 46 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 583
Warning 47 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 648
Warning 48 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 732
Warning 49 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 736
Warning 50 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 749
Warning 51 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 758
Warning 52 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 767
Warning 53 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 776
Warning 54 warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 1056
Warning 55 warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 1091
Warning 56 warning C4018: '>' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\layer3.c 2636
Warning 57 warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned C:\Audacity-2.2.2\lib-src\libmad\synth.c 599
With all these warnings in the compile logs I feel like I still don’t have the right mix of versions, or something is wrong with my build setup.
Thoughts and suggestions?