[Openal] deployement

[Andre Krause]

Xavier Bouchoux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When distributing an application that uses openAl, what are the various 
> possibilities to make sure that the library is installed on the computer?
> 
> The ones I can think of are:
> - linking to the OpenAL website with the installer to download.
> - The deployement guide suggest shipping the oalinst.exe and running it.
> - putting OpenAL32.dll and warp_oal.dll with the exe.
> - other?
> 
> What do you think of the various options?
> 
> what about people with hardware accelerated cards? Is openAl installed 
> when installing the driver?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> xavier.
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too sad, that this tricky router+wrapper system of entwined dll's does 
not allow static linking of openAL...
but if you dont need native hardware acceleration and you can fall back 
to generic software or hardware, then you just need to modify the source 
code of openAL a bit and can make a static build of the library. static 
linking has some advantages. for example, if you make a small 
internet-downloadable game, you really do not want the gamer/user

1. put through many clicks of an installer or
2. put him the burden to unzip some archive (yes.. there definitely are 
casual gamers who cant handle a zip tool or use the xp built in zip 
functionality) or
3. manually install openAL