Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> * Erik Hofman -- Monday 20 October 2008:
>> I find it rather annoying to have to move away from ALUT just because
>> Apple can't play nice. Bad for them, let them straighten it out if they
>> don't obey the the specs. I vote against this.
>
> The problem seems to be that the original ("Creative") OpenAL seems
> to be dead. Development has stalled in a buggy state. Debian has
> forked OpenAL under name "OpenAL Soft", but apparently not alut,
> which is a bit strange. No idea how well old alut works with new
> openal. So, is alut now unmaintained, and dead-ish?
>
> http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
Freealut was removed from OpenAL before OpenAL version 1.1 and is
designed to work with every other implementation of OpenAL.
OpenAL itself was never developed bij Creative but by Loki, which was
later bought by Creative. But the Loki implementation is still available
since it is licensed under the terms of the LGPL. The OpenAL-Soft
implementation is based on an old version of OpenAL developed bij
Creative but never finished. This version too is LGPL and even seems to
work with Creative's binary drivers for Windows.
I use freealut myself using my own implementation of OpenAL.
The main problem is that Apple never removed the alut functions from
their OpenAL library causing linking conflicts wehn linking both
freealut and OpenAL.
\
Erik
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