Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear audio prerequisites

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

Curtis Olson wrote:
> On the FlightGear source download page we list openal (www.openal.org 
> <http://www.openal.org>) as a prerequisite for FlightGear and suggest 
> that developers/users download the latest cvs version rather than any 
> versioned release.  (http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/source.shtml)
> 
> With the latest audio updates from Erik, has this dependency and 
> recommendation changed?  What should we recommend for folks building 
> FlightGear/SimGear from source code.  OpenAL-Soft (?)  Minimum version? 
>  Link?

The current latest version of OpenAL-Soft (OpenAL Soft 1.11.753) should 
eliminate all known PulseAudio problems:
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

It would probably best if that version is used (or the one provided by 
the Operating System off course).

Erik