Feature Request: Compilation options

[anders-larsson]

It would be great if more options was added to the ./configure script to disable functions which not everyone wants.
Examples:

• Disable/Enable pulseaudio (libraries required to compile but not really necessary to record sound in ssr I guess). Correct me if I'm wrong though

PS: I'm maintaining a Gentoo ebuild for ssr. It can be found here https://github.com/anders-larsson/gentoo-overlay/

[MaartenBaert]

I will add a configure option, but are you sure that you want to disable it completely? libpulse is already a dependency of many other project and it's not very large by itself: it doesn't pull in PulseAudio on most distros AFAIK, is Gentoo different?

Your package (ebuild?) would be useful for other users as well, will they still be able to enable PulseAudio?

[anders-larsson]

There's no package available only to include the libs in Gentoo. Pulseaudio libs is provided by media-sound/pulseaudio which provides the whole suite (depending on USE-flags). Some just don't like Pulseaudio that's all I know.

I'm using Pulseaudio myself and will continue to do so. Gentoo allows you to use USE-flags to decide what functionality you want in your package. So pulseaudio will be included as a useflag.

An ebuild describes the required/optional dependencies and how to build the package successfully.

[anders-larsson]

I've updated the ebuild to support disabling/enabling pulseaudio and a few other options.

Thanks for providing us with a good screen recording program. Would help contribute if I had the knowledge.

[MaartenBaert]

You're welcome :).

I would like to add your overlay (if that's what it's called in Gentoo) to my website, is that okay? Should I just link to the github page and assume that Gentoo users know what to do with it? I have no experience with Gentoo.

I saw that your package is called 'ssr', I think it would be better to call it 'simplescreenrecorder' for consistency with the program name (/usr/bin/simplescreenrecorder) and the packages for Ubuntu and Arch. It would also reduce the risk of naming conflicts.

Also:

elog "To build these add 'media-video/ssr abi_x86' to package.use"

Shouldn't that be abi_x86_32?

[anders-larsson]

I would like to add your overlay (if that's what it's called in Gentoo) to my website, is that okay? Should I just link to the github page and assume that Gentoo users know what to do with it? I have no experience with Gentoo.

It sounds great. Not worth keeping the ebuild to myself. I guess it should be enough to just add the overlay to your site. I might contact Gentoo to get the overlay listed in layman. It makes it even easier since then someone would just need to do "layman -a repository; emerge simplescreenrecorder" (they would probably want to set USE flags though) and every should be up and running.

I saw that your package is called 'ssr', I think it would be better to call it 'simplescreenrecorder' for consistency with the program name (/usr/bin/simplescreenrecorder) and the packages for Ubuntu and Arch. It would also reduce the risk of naming conflicts.

I've renamed the ebuilds/package to simplescreenrecorder. Agreed. The name 'ssr' could easily lead to naming conflicts.

Also:
elog "To build these add 'media-video/ssr abi_x86' to package.use"
Shouldn't that be abi_x86_32?

That's changed now. Thanks!