Compiling for MinGW-W64

[hadronized]

I’ve been trying to compile the crate on mingw-w64 for hours. I haven’t found a way to make it through with the crates.io crate, so I downloaded openal-rs, add a local override to my project and changed the link target from #[link(name = "openal32")] to #[link(name = "openal")], because that’s what pkg-config expects if you pass it --libs openal.

After our talk on IRC, you uploaded an upper-case version that will work for the native Windows installation but not for MinGW. What can we do about that?

[jpernst]

Honestly I'm not sure. MinGW is a bit strange in that it's windows, but acts like unix. I'm not quite sure how to handle both that and the MSVC case. Perhaps there's a more specific cfg attribute that can be used; I'll look into it.

[hadronized]

Yeah, that’s what I thought as well. I’ll keep track of this too.

[jpernst]

Ok, I think I've found a possible solution. Could you try pulling the latest from git and seeing if it works under mingw?

[hadronized]

I don’t have it anymore – released. I’ll try in my VM when I find enough spare time though. Thank you very much. :)

[jpernst]

Closing this for now since I'm redoing this lib completely.

[hadronized]

Wait what do you mean redoing this lib completely? Will it change the interface?

[jpernst]

The raw FFI bindings will still be available as before, but I'm completely redoing the high-level interface, since the previous version was both incomplete and unsound. While I'm at it I'm also going to expose most documented extensions including the EFX suite and the software loopback device, so openal-rs will be able to feed its audio into SDL2 or whatever other platform lib.

In other words, yes, this will be a complete breaking change, but the old versions will continue to be available of course.

[hadronized]

Ok, I’ll follow along upstream, since I have a project I’m working on using openal-rs ;) – btw, it’d be nice to have a better name on crates.io, but I don’t know whether it’s possible. I wrote the al Haskell binding to OpenAL, I know that kind of stuff can get tedious :). Good luck!

[jpernst]

I was never quite happy with the name either, honestly. Since I'm doing a complete rewrite, I guess now is the time to change, so I've renamed the high level api to alto and moved the ffi stuff into al-sys

[hadronized]

Interesting; I’ll be looking forward to it.