Playrec for Octave

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 09.03.2008, at 11:39, Fredrik Lingvall wrote:

> Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>> What about distributing the playrec code alone without including  
>> binaries that include non-GPLed software? As far as I can tell,  
>> users of GPLed software are allowed to do just about anything with  
>> it, as long as they don't publish anything that is not GPL  
>> compatible. This would mean that anyone can build playrec (which  
>> is GPLed) with ASIO (which is not GPLed)  for his/her own use.  
>> Also, did you consider using OpenAL instead of PortAudio (http:// 
>> www.openal.org)? I stumbled across OpenAL this morning, so I have  
>> no idea about licences, features, etc.
> Mattias,
>
> David Bateman suggested OpenAL too but it looks more like a 3D  
> audio rendering software. See the discussion here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47C2EB9D. 
> 7040504%40ifi.uio.no&forum_name=octave-dev
>
> Also, mkoctfile can build mex-files so you might be able to use  
> playrec as it is.

I am a complete noob with building mex files. I tried the following  
(within Octave 3.0 on a PPC-Mac with Mac OS X 10.4):

1. Changed to path/to/playrec_2_0_8/src/
2. mkoctfile pa_dll_playrec.c

This produces a zillion of warnings and errors, but no mex file. Can  
anyone help me out?

Matthias



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