Re: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

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.  



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).