[sldev] GCC4.4.x Was: SNOW-272 patch posted

[Mike Dickson]

Right, I understand that could be done. Actually I tried that on 9.10
and had issues with other utilities. Probably could have made it work
with fiddling but that's not the point.  Most of the distros are
shipping with PulseAudio on by default and I'd like to see it working.
Note, I'm talking about using pulseaudio directly not the ALSA
"adapter".

FWIW, the issues are mostly in the OpenAL library.  There's a new
version that just released (OpenAL Soft 1.10.622) that includes patches
that get native pulseaudio audio output working really well.  Capture is
still broken.  I'm going to try to do some hacking on the library to get
that working and submit patches if I can.  Biggest trick will be the
SLVoice stuff since that's binary only.

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

Mike

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 15:05 +0000, Anders Arnholm wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:06:35PM -0600, Mike Dickson wrote:
> > The first issue I hit was with the incompatibility around the boost
> > library.  But the writable string thing is a good one too.
> > 
> > I've also done a fair bit of debugging around sound issues and
> > pulseaudio.  Most of the problems I've traced to the openal library
> > really not dealing well with pulseaudio in general.  I'll keep tinkering
> > with that but I really wanted to get snowglobe building on a recent
> > distro first so I could base any changes I did off of it.
> 
> For my 9.10 box i droppped out pulseaudio fir esound, and openal was
> happy again.
> 
> / Balp
>