Prerequiste ----------- To build fdkaac, you need the followings: - libfdk-aac (https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac) - GNU autoconf, GNU automake libfdk-aac is always required, and probably you have to build it yourself. Others are required only when you build by configure and make on Unix-like enviromnent (including Cygwin or MinGW), and usually you can install them through package manager of your system if they are not already present. Unix-like environment --------------------- You can build and install libfdkaac and fdkaac in the following step. 1) extract the source, and cd to the source directory 2) autoreconf -i 3) ./configure 4) make 5) sudo make install Depending on your requirements, you might want to add some extra arguments to configure script. You have to install libfdk-aac first, and do the same for fdkaac. Windows, MSVC ------------- Extract libfdk-aac under fdkaac directory, and open MSVC/fdkaac.sln.