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Portable C Audio Library 1.3


The Portable C Audio Library (pcaudiolib) provides a C API to different audio devices. It supports:

Audio FrameworkOperating System
ALSALinux
CoreAudioMac OS
OSSPOSIX
PulseAudioLinux
QSAQNX
XAudio2Windows

See the ChangeLog for a description of the changes in the various releases.

Build Dependencies

In order to build the project, you need:

  1. an autotools system (make, autoconf, automake, libtool and pkg-config);
  2. a C compiler (e.g. gcc or clang).

Optionally, you need:

  1. the alsa development libraries to enable alsa audio output;
  2. the pulseaudio development library to enable pulseaudio output.

Debian

Core dependencies:

DependencyInstall
autotoolssudo apt-get install make autoconf automake libtool pkg-config
c compilersudo apt-get install gcc

Optional Libraries:

DependencyInstall
alsasudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
pulseaudiosudo apt-get install libpulse-dev

Mac OS

To enable CoreAudio output support you need to have the coreaudio framework on your system. Installing XCode along with the Mac OS SDK is the recommended way of getting it. For Xcode on OS X 10.9 and earlier C11 compiler or newer is needed.

Windows

Some of the Windows SDK APIs (e.g. the XAudio2 headers) don't compile with a C compiler, so a C++ compiler is needed to compile them.

Building

This project uses a standard autotools build system with an autogen.sh script. You can thus build the project using:

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make

and install it using:

sudo make install

Bugs

Report bugs to the pcaudiolib issues page on GitHub.

License Information

The Portable C Audio Library is released under the GPL version 3 or later license.