1--- 2layout: page 3--- 4 5# Building libsndfile on Win32 6 7**Note : For pre-compiled binaries for windows, both for win32 and win64, see 8the main web page.** 9 10There are currently two build systems; the official GNU autotool based one and 11a more limited and experimental CMake based build system. 12 13libsndfile is written to be compiled by a compiler which supports large chunks 14of the 1999 ISO C Standard (tested with GCC, Clang and Visual Studio 2015). 15 16It is recommended to use CMake and Visual Studio to build libsndfile on Windows 17but you can try the [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) compiler suite with Autotools 18or CMake buildsystem. 19