Re: [SoX-users] Poll on Windows version of SoX

[Andrzej <an...@ga...>]

I'm no too technical so I'm not shure if I understand you completely, but  
I'd very much prefer a consistent EXE file without the need of additional  
DLLs.



Dnia 20-01-2008 o 20:10:17 Chris Bagwell <ch...@cn...> napisał:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to poll the people that actually use SoX on windows.  Would
> people prefer me to ship a Cygwin version of SoX or the MinGW version
> I've been shipping in the past?  The main difference between the two are:
>
> 1) MinGW allows me to ship a single sox.exe binary with no supporting
> libraries to worry about.  Cygwin requires at least to distribute
> cygwin1.dll and the user must have that in your path somehow.
>
> 2) Cygwin allows support for playing and recording audio using SoX on
> windows.
>
> As a test, I've posted a cygwin version of SoX that includes FLAC, OGG,
> libsamplerate.
>
> http://sox.sf.net/sox-14.0.1-rc2-cygwin.zip
>
> I'd appreciate feedback on how it works for you.  To play/rec audio use
> the included play.exe/rec.exe binaries.  Or you can use sox.exe itself
> and specify "-t oss /dev/dsp" as the filename for input/output.  I'd
> also appreciate feedback on the documents that are distributed with
> windows package.  I've only shipped it in PDF format.  Is that OK?  Or
> should I ship a TXT version as well?  Does cygwin package need a custom
> README file to explain how cygwin1.dll needs to be in your path?
>
> It may be possible for me not to distribute the OGG and FLAC DLL's in
> the future.  I just linked against the versions Cygwin distributes and
> they don't seem to have real static versions of their libraries.  I may
> can custom build those like I did with libsamplerate.
>
> Chris
>
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