[Openal] Linux deployment and OpenAL-Soft

[Jason Daly]

Hi, Carsten,


Carsten Fuchs wrote:
> Do I understand it right that OpenAL-Soft provides me with both the 
> headers and (when compiled), all the needed .so libraries, so that I 
> don't need the "official" Linux files from 
> http://www.openal.org/downloads.html at all?

That's correct.


> Is there any advantage in using the "official" files instead of 
> OpenAL-Soft?

OpenAL-Soft is definitely what you want to use.  In fact, the old Sample 
Implementation (what you're calling the "official" files) will soon be 
deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  The download links are actually 
quite old and likely not to work at all anymore.

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