Re: [Iaxclient-devel] compiling IAXCLIENT under WIN32

[<Uri...@nc...>]

Steve:
One step at a time and we will get there.  My first step is to catch up
with this moving train so I can at least sound half intelligent.
We need to move away from unistd.h.  I found that code in the Delphi
version.  I will check again in the new CVS that you pointed out but I have
not downloaded yet.

Regards,

Uriel


                                                                                                                                
                      Steve Kann                                                                                                
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On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 11:48, Uri...@nc... wrote:
> Steve:
> I suspected I was on the wrong path.  I have been working with Asterisk
for
> close to two years now under Linux and never had so many problems
> compiling.  I am going to follow ALL of your instructions to set myself
up.
> By the way, I signed up with the development list so I can pitch in and
> help.

Great!

Right now, there's a couple of things we're working on:

1) creating a better separation of the Win32 audio code, and the library
core,
2) creating an alternate audio driver based on portaudio, and fixing any
portability issues we have remaining.

 With 1 && 2 , we should have a core library, and simple sample program
that we can get running under Win32, MacOSX, and Linux.

Shawn is working on this stuff now, and things should start landing in
CVS soon.  Once we get a simple test app running cross-platform, we'll
definately make an announcement on the list.

We also want to upgrade libiax to a version which supports IAX2, which
has several improvements that are important to us.  But we're waiting on
Mark from Digium for that part.

After this, there will be a bunch of things we need to do:

Write simple UI code for different platforms (we have some strict
requirements for the UI we need, but people can make some optional UI
elements for their needs too)

If someone is interested in a "full-featured" client, with
address-books, and whatnot, they could work on that, maybe using
WxWindows or something else portable.  [this is the UI that would be
most comparable to GnoPhone and the like, with support for address
books, multiple simultaneous calls, etc etc).

Add some audio processing code:  (a) silence detection [so the client
can send "silent" packets, or no packets when you're not speaking, (b)
energy detection (related to (a)), so client GUIs can display level
meters, (c) Sample rate conversion, (esp for Linux audio devices which
can't support 8k rates), (d) support for alternate codecs [currently
we're wired to GSM, but supporting e.g. Speex and u/aLaw might be nice].

Lots of testing and bugfixing, of course :)

-SteveK


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