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

[D. S. <new...@gm...>]

I wonder if ... you couldn't have your cake and eat it too with mingw.
Maybe through the use of something like TiMidity++'s Windows MMS
configure option --enable-audio=w32 ... or does anyone know if the
SDL_mixer lib can produce audio output with mingw?


On Jan 20, 2008 3:33 PM, Chris Bagwell <ch...@cn...> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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