Re: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release
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From: Paul L. <pau...@bo...> - 2012-03-08 21:27:40
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On 8 Mar 2012, at 20:49, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote: > > Paul wrote: >> I'm sorry but I can't help here. I can try building it at the weekend >> without libasound and see what happens. > > Are you building Audacity with libasound now? > > Does Audacity support ALSA on Mac? I thought only CoreAudio. > Jack for OS X uses CoreAudio. I'll have a check, there's something in the back of my mind saying that it used to cause trouble but I may be thinking of something else. Paul > > > > Gale > > > | From Paul Livesey <pau...@bo...> > | Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:10:40 +0000 > | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release >> >> On 8 Mar 2012, at 18:11, Gale Andrews wrote: >>> >>> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> >>> | Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:11:31 -0800 >>> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release >>>> D'oh, just now got the notice that this bounced! >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release >>>> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:06:21 -0800 >>>> From: Vaughan Johnson <vau...@sb...> >>>> To: aud...@li... >>>> >>>> Putting -quality back on this thread, as we need Gale's input on this, >>>> and he'll see it there sooner (as I understand it). >>>> >>>> - V >>>> >>>> On 3/7/2012 4:04 PM, Vaughan Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 3/7/2012 1:19 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote: >>>>>> On 7 March 2012 20:56, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote: >>>>>>> On 3/7/2012 6:48 AM, Steve the Fiddle wrote: >>> >>> Re: >>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v >>> >>> In System Requirements we could delete "Audacity runs best with at >>> least 64 MB RAM and a 300 MHz processor." It's nonsense for Windows >>> and Mac. The links are enough. >>> >>> >>>>>>>> On the new sourcecode page >>>>>>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v >>>>>>>> there is no mention of libasound in the dependencies. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Neither does http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_source. So >>>>>>> this is OT to changes for 2.0 release. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Debian it is possible to build Audacity without libasound, but >>>>>>>> sound does not work (no audio devices). >>>>>>>> For ALSA support on Debian, libasound2-dev is required. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please suggest a wording of what you'd like to see added, and where. >>>>>> >>>>>> As you're revamping the page I thought it'd be worth mentioning now. >>>>> >>>>> No problem, just prioritizing what other changes to make, beyond the >>>>> essential and already agreed. :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I've only ever built on Debian and Ubuntu so I don't know if this is >>>>>> specific to Linux, or if it also applies to Mac OS X, or if it only >>>>>> applies to Debian based distributions. >>>>>> I'd have thought something like below. >>>>>> Steve >>>>>> --------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v >>>>>> >>>>>> How to Compile Audacity >>>>>> Dependencies >>>>>> >>>>>> The wxWidgets library is required. Audacity 2.0.0 requires wxGTK 2.8.12. >>>>>> + libasound is also required (for Linux / any other applicable OS). >>> >>> On: >>> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Linux#Prerequisites >>> >>> it says libsndfile is required, not optional. >>> >>> I think beyond agreeing what libs are required, it's futile to mention >>> specifically just three of all the "optional" libraries. We could just say: >>> >>> "Other optional libraries are included in Audacity obtained from SVN." >>> >>> These are dependencies for Ubuntu-supplied *packages* of Audacity: >>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/audacity >>> >>> including libasound2. >>> >>> I have never consciously run into a libasound issue compiling Audacity >>> on Ubuntu 10.10; libasound is not in our configure script so it is not on: >>> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Linux . >>> >>> Can you explain more, Steve? >>> >>> I doubt libasound is needed to compile Audacity on Mac, but have Cc'd >>> Paul. It is not required on Windows (it is not in lib-src). > > > |