***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] ALSA / libasound

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+win@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Emmas wrote:

> Hi there.  I'm in the early stages of considering whether or not I can port
> a Linux project to Windows.

Out of curiosity, which project?

> However, after a couple of weeks I've hit a major snag.  The project uses a
> Linux library called libasound which implements a set of tools for handling
> sound and midi.  It does this through the use of ALSA which unfotunately,
> isn't supported by Cygwin.  Would I have any more success if I moved to
> MinGW or have I embarked on a fool's errand?

MinGW will not help you.

ALSA (and libasound) are Linux specific audio APIs. If the app
depends on ALSA, the best way forward would be to modify the
app so that i can use either ALSA or optionally a cross platform
audio API like PortAudio. Once the app can use PortAudio in place
of ALSA, that part of the porting should be painless.

Erik
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