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

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

robs wrote:
> --- Andrzej <an...@ga...> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> IIRC, all you need to do in windows is drop an exe and
> any accompanying dlls into a "utils" folder, make sure
> this folder is in the PATH, and you're done.
>
>
>   
Yes, its not to bad to work with as Rob mentions.  But still its nice to 
be able to stick sox.exe anywhere and just executed it as 
c:\path\to\sox.exe.  With cygwin version you have to create a util 
directory and place that in your path...

And you'll have to manage the DLL's yourself.  For example, I hope to 
get rid of the OGG and FLAC DLL's and link those in statically soon.   
If I'm able to do this, during an upgrade you'll have to notice that 
yourself and delete them manually.

Playing and recording from command line (think automated recordings of 
shoutcast streams) is a pretty nice feature to have on Windows.  So I'm 
curious of peoples opinions if the (small?) negative outweighs the 
benefits. 

If SoX ever gets a native windows audio driver then I could stick with 
mingw compiler; and thus a single sox.exe file to distribute.  Hopefully 
that will happen in a future release.  In case people were wondering, 
Cygwin emulates a Linux audio device and allows us to use the Linux 
audio driver on Windows.

Chris