Re: [Alsa-user] question about upgrading to 1.0.0pre* vs other sound software

[wwp <sub...@fr...>]

Hi Jaroslav Kysela,


On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:32:38 +0100 (CET) Jaroslav Kysela <pe...@su...> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, wwp wrote:
> 
> > is it necessary to recompiled sound-related stuff like esound, or xmms
> > when upgrading to ALSA 1.0.0pre? Or does 1.0.0 breaks 0.9.0 library/headers
> > compat?
> 
> The binary compatibility is kept (so if you have compiled binaries against
> old library, they will work ok with 1.0 library). But: you cannot compile
> old (0.9) ALSA sources with 1.0 libraries. You must add these defines to 
> source:
> 
> #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API
> #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API
> #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>

Okay! Thanx for the clear and concise answer :-).


Regards,

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wwp