Re: [Audacity-devel] Solaris support

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

There aren't any Solaris patches I'm aware of that haven't been  
checked in.

I used Audacity on Solaris last about three years ago, and at the  
time it worked fine.  I don't see any reason why it wouldn't now.  In  
fact, it might be easier since back then Solaris used its own version  
of Make and CC, but now I think they use GNU Make and they at least  
include gcc.

PortAudio works fine if you install OSS, and OSS is supported on most  
Solaris boxes last I checked, although some of them may need a  
commercial driver (free trial).  I have not tried PortAudio's native  
Solaris support.  I'd highly recommend installing OSS for Solaris  
first and trying a sample OSS program.

Then, make sure that typing "make" gives you GNU make and "cc" gives  
you gcc (ideally version 3.3, 3.4, or 4.1) and Audacity should  
compile "out of the box".  Look carefully at the modules in the "lib- 
src" directory.  If Audacity has trouble while compiling one of  
those, consider configuring it out (see "configure --help") and get  
the rest to work first, then maybe we can go back and fix whatever  
module didn't compile.

Solaris is pretty similar to most other Unix systems these days, so  
it really ought to be possible.

- Dominic

On Oct 1, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Leland wrote:
> On 10/1/06 2:30 PM, "David Hollister" <dav...@co...>  
> wrote:
>
>> Was the work that was done preserved somewhere?
>>
> Don't really know.  I had google'd for portaudio and solaris.  But,  
> here's
> the best I can find:
>
> http://www.portaudio.com/trac/browser/portaudio/branches/V18-patch/ 
> pa_unix_o
> ss/
>
> It's for version 1.8 and may very well have been integrated into the
> pz_unix_oss.c module in version 1.9.  Maybe you could compare the
> pa_unix_oss.c and pa_unix_solaris.c in the above directory to see the
> differences and then check the current pa_unix_oss.c to see if they
> integrated the two.
>
> Leland
>
>> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 13:31 -0500, Leland wrote:
>>> On 9/30/06 1:19 PM, "dav...@co..."
>>> <dav...@co...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anybody looking into this?  I am not a C++ guru, but I can  
>>>> get around and
>>>> am proficient in C.  I would be interested in working on this, I  
>>>> just don't
>>>> want to duplicate effort.
>>>>
>>> No one that I know of is working on it, at least not within the  
>>> last year or
>>> so.  I think your largest challenge will getting portaudio to  
>>> work.  I just
>>> did a little checking and, while work had been done on a Solaris  
>>> port, it
>>> doesn't seem that the Solaris port was kept up.
>>>
>>> Leland
>>
>>
>>
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