ZDoom with OpenAL

[Graf Zahl]

Ok, that should do it. How is FLAC being handled? Is that part of libsndfile?

[Chris]

Ok, that should do it. How is FLAC being handled? Is that part of libsndfile?

Yeah. It needs libFLAC to work, though (which I forgot about, but is there on http://www.xiph.org/downloads/). If you need a flac dll, I can try making one for you.

EDIT:
Here's a libFLAC.dll from illiminble (Ogg DShow codecs).

[Graf Zahl]

Sorry, that one won't do. It uses a customized CRT for MSVC which normally does not exist.

[Chris]

Will one compiled with MinGW do?

[Graf Zahl]

Yes. But it's not urgent. I'd like to try to get MinGW to work myself for such cases.

[Graf Zahl]

Ok, sorry to rant.
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I just installed MinGW and had a look at the OGG and FLAC libraries. How the *f*uck am I supposed to compile those with MinGW? Is there any way I can generate a makefile out of that autotools garbage that constitutes the bulk of these distributions?

(And that all because I wanted to reduce file size by using a shared CRT.)

[Chris]

I just installed MinGW and had a look at the OGG and FLAC libraries. How the *f*uck am I supposed to compile those with MinGW? Is there any way I can generate a makefile out of that autotools garbage that constitutes the bulk of these distributions?

The autotools stuff should work in Windows with MSys. Command-line-based tools generally need a better shell than the one Windows comes with by default.

[Graf Zahl]

Argh!

So in order to run this shit I have to install more shit?

Sigh... Why does the LInux community have to rely on such garbage tools? Just looking at these files makes my head scratch. How brain damaged must one be to actually design something like that?

[Chris]

Sigh... Why does the LInux community have to rely on such garbage tools? Just looking at these files makes my head scratch. How brain damaged must one be to actually design something like that?

Because people don't like change. Or rather, they want to stick with what they know, even if it means extending it way beyond what it was intended to handle. I'm glad CMake is catching on.

[Graf Zahl]

I'm glad CMake is catching on.

Me, too. Although just trying to compile ZDoom also resulted in no presentable results. For some reason CMake insists to use Microsoft's DX headers instead of the ones for MinGW and the GCC that was installed by MinGW apparently can't compile ZDoom. I only get this:

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D:\windoom\zdoomstuff\zdoomsrc\zdoom\trunk\src\r_draw.cpp:140: error: initializer for scalar variable requires one element
mingw32-make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/zdoom.dir/r_draw.obj] Error 1
mingw32-make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/zdoom.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2

... which according to closed bug reports is caused by an old GCC.

[Chris]

Me, too. Although just trying to compile ZDoom also resulted in no presentable results. For some reason CMake insists to use Microsoft's DX headers instead of the ones for MinGW and the GCC that was installed by MinGW apparently can't compile ZDoom. I only get this:

... which according to closed bug reports is caused by an old GCC.

What version of GCC? MinGW was stuck at GCC 3.4 for the longest time because the maintainer couldn't handle it more. There are some GCC 4.2 version release candidates though, here.

[Graf Zahl]

Yes, 3.4 it is. Trying out your links.

[Blzut3]

I seem to be having problems compiling this under Linux.

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[ 36%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/zdoom.dir/sound/oalsound.o
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘void OpenALSoundRenderer::CheckActiveChannels()’:            
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:667: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision                         
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual unsigned int OpenALSoundRenderer::GetMSLength(SoundHandle)’:                                                                                                                            
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:699: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual unsigned int OpenALSoundRenderer::GetSampleLength(SoundHandle)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:715: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void OpenALSoundRenderer::UnloadSound(SoundHandle)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:888: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual FISoundChannel* OpenALSoundRenderer::StartSound(SoundHandle, float, int, int, FISoundChannel*)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1072: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual FISoundChannel* OpenALSoundRenderer::StartSound3D(SoundHandle, SoundListener*, float, FRolloffInfo*, float, int, int, const FVector3&, const FVector3&, int, int, FISoundChannel*)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1209: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void OpenALSoundRenderer::StopChannel(FISoundChannel*)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1258: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual unsigned int OpenALSoundRenderer::GetPosition(FISoundChannel*)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1289: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void OpenALSoundRenderer::UpdateSoundParams3D(SoundListener*, FISoundChannel*, bool, const FVector3&, const FVector3&)’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1333: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void OpenALSoundRenderer::UpdateSounds()’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1447: error: cast from ‘void*’ to ‘ALuint’ loses precision
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp: In member function ‘virtual FString OpenALSoundRenderer::GatherStats()’:
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1511: warning: format ‘%u’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1511: warning: format ‘%u’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘long unsigned int’
/home/blzut3/Code/ZDoomAL/src/sound/oalsound.cpp:1511: warning: format ‘%u’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 5 has type ‘size_t’
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/zdoom.dir/sound/oalsound.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/zdoom.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Graf Zahl]

The code is obviously not 64bit compatible.

[Chris]

The code is obviously not 64bit compatible.

It is, though I didn't consider the compiler throwing out warnings. The pointers are set by the value of an ALuint, so casting those pointers back to an ALuint doesn't lose anything. The compiler doesn't realize that, though. The "format '%u' expects..." warnings are problems, though.