[Openal] Header files placement

[Yaniv Pe'er]

Here's my recommendation,

I'm not sure exactly of the reasons they did it this way (I remember some
folks discussing it a while ago) but to fix this I just use system variables
for all my SDKs locations. It makes life easier if I happen to switch
machines or having to work from another computer with the files on a
different machine.

For example:
%SDKS_HOME% = c:\SDKS
%OPENAL_HOME% = %SDKS_HOME%\OpenAL\include
...

Then use "%OPENAL_HOME% ", etc... For the include directories in Visual
Studio (or any other compiler/editor) In Linux you would simply give the
variable a "/AL" at the end.


If you're working with Linux/Mac you don't have to change your source files,
you simply change the system variables. I think its good practice for any
kind of project regardless of which SDK you use.

You could probably play around with it in some other ways. I like this
method because it doesn't force me to change the SDK directories.


Yaniv Pe'er
Programmer, Artist, Game Developer
[[ http://www.GroteskAndMonstrous.com ]]

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[mailto:openal-bounces at opensource.creative.com] On Behalf Of Anders Backman
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:13 PM
To: 'OpenAL Mailing List'
Subject: [Openal] Header files placement


Cant help myself, but I have to start this thread (again).

Could someone come with strong arguments why OpenAL wont use <AL/al.h> under
windows instead of <al.h> or "al.h"

The SDK installation assumes that this is the case, why?

Makes life a mess to do cross-platform compilation, which is the main reason
for using OpenAL in the first place, right?

/Anders

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