[Openal-devel] OpenAL compilation under Linux Ubuntu desctop/server32/64-bit

[Jason Daly]

Dmitry Kostjuchenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sorry for double posting, my first experience with mailing lists :)
>
> While porting my library from Windows to Linux platform and using 
> Ubuntu distribution compilation fails with error that 
> PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE is not existing. To combat this issue I 
> propose to include following lines in 'config.ac':
>
> # To combat an issue with PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE not included on some 
> platforms we shall
> # explicitly define _GNU_SOURCE.
> AC_DEFINE([_GNU_SOURCE], [1], [Define to 1 to explicitly include 
> PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on some gcc versions.])
>
> As a result all compiles out from the box without error. Or are there 
> any settings that I missed to triger and not to do these steps?

Hi, Dmitry,

The code base you're using is deprecated.  We're now encouraging Linux 
users to use OpenAL-Soft, which you can get at:

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/openal-soft-1.4.272.tar.bz2

You'll need CMake to compile it.  Most likely, you won't encounter this 
issue with OpenAL-Soft (let us know if you do).

--"J"