Franois, > You mean to help porting *nix apps to win ? > isn't there already some kind of OSS emulation in cygwin ?
Good point, I didn't even consider this. However looks as if cygwin's OSS emulation is very behind, only old /dev/dsp stuff I think without any OSS v4.0 stuff. However, one serious problem with cygwin is that it isn't compatible with any proprietary software, for example no staticly linking with the cygwin library for instance with out releasing your source code... Details, http://cygwin.com/license.html The License with MSYS (MinGW) is ok, however I don't believe they have or want OSS support given that it is designed for using compilier tools only. Yair, The libossaudio soundcard.h does "#define ioctl _oss_ioctl", so on BSDs after including soundcard.h all ioctl()s are routing through libossaudio, which seems a little "hackish". On Windows if you did this you would have to emulate the standard c open/close/read/write stuff, in select() would have to emulate calls to Windows Winsock, but I don't see any naming conflicts for poll/mmap/ioctl (could be wrong though). However, After reading both your comments, it seems as if what I am suggesting might not be that useful. Basically my suggestion boils down to a liboss on Mac and Windows which has, oss_write(), oss_read(), oss_select(), oss_poll(), oss_ioctl(), etc, but without any kind of "#define ioctl oss_ioctl()" stuff. When it seems as if it would be better to have the following two options, 1.) OSS in cygwin or msys or perhaps some other "full" unix wrapper api for windows. 2.) Actual native OSS drivers to fully replace the Windows and Mac ones. _ |imothy Farrar game .......... http://www.farrarfocus.com/atom darkroom ...... http://www.farrarfocus.com/ffdd photography ... http://www.farrarfocus.com _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
