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Thread: What is easiest cross-platform way to play .ogg files with OpenAL (Win32/Linux/...)?

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    Question What is easiest cross-platform way to play .ogg files with OpenAL (Win32/Linux/...)?

    Hey all,
    I am already using OpenAL in my game, The Probe, but now I want to play .ogg music files as well as the .wav sound effects that I already play.

    What would be the easiest, and lowest dependancy way of playing .ogg files using OpenAL that will work cross-platform (Win32/Linux/...)?

    Any ideas?

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    how many libraries do you know? Vorbis(you need libogg and libvorbis) as a reference realization And one of the fastest for ARM realization - Tremolo.

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    Hi Andru,
    I have used one or two ogg and vorbis DLLs before to stream ogg files using OpenAL in the past (was a bit buggy though), but I was hoping to use some solution that doesn't need yet more DLL/SO files to distribute (or install) with my game...C/C++ seems to be able to play ogg files without extra libs due to just compiling the libs into the exe.

    I don't think I can do this with Freepascal/Delphi?

    I already have the sdl.dll, openal.dll, and my game engine dll...

    EDIT: what sort of music files can ZenGL play?

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    Paul
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    ZenGL can stream ogg music. And it uses libraries which I mentioned. With FreePascal you can use static linking without dll's. Delphi... you can try to use object files from ogg libs after compilation with Borland C++, but I had no luck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andru View Post
    ZenGL can stream ogg music. And it uses libraries which I mentioned. With FreePascal you can use static linking without dll's. Delphi... you can try to use object files from ogg libs after compilation with Borland C++, but I had no luck.
    Hi Andru, I have downloaded libogg 1.3.0 and libvorbis 1.3.2, and both seem to come with source code...so I was wondering what I might be able to compile them with to produce statically linking libs/whatever for freepascal then? (I guess I can always give up on Delphi for compiling my game and just use Lazarus)

    Any idea if code::blocks might work?

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    Paul
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    Any idea if code::blocks might work?
    Yes, it will, but you will be needed to create proper project file with all options... But even so - static compilation won't be easy for Windows. See source code of ZenGL - zgl_sound_ogg.pas and zgl_lib_msvcrt.pas.
    Last edited by Andru; 26-12-2011 at 10:49 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andru View Post
    Yes, it will, but you will be needed to create proper project file with all options... But even so - static compilation won't be easy for Windows. See source code of ZenGL - zgl_sound_ogg.pas and zgl_lib_msvcrt.pas.
    Thanks, I will take a look
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