[Openal] New member - Compiling OpenAL example on Macintosh

[Jason Daly]

Cara Quinn wrote:
>    NOw, I know that technically alut is no longer supported in OpenAL  
> 1.1 and Apple is adhering to that spec so I'm not surprised I can't  
> compile, but my question is this;  What in the world am I to do about  
> it?!  :)
>   



Probably the easiest option is Chris Robinson's ALURE library, which is 
a little smarter about loading files than the old ALUT was.  You can 
find it at

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/alure.html



There is also a newer open-source implementation of ALUT called 
"freealut".  It's available at

http://tinyurl.com/cvokel

You'll need to download the source and compile it on your system.  The 
documentation is available on the main OpenAL site 
(http://www.openal.org).  I'd guess the main advantage of using this is 
that the old example code should "just work".

I'm not a Mac user, but I've heard you might run into issues or 
conflicts with the old ALUT functions.  Let me know if this happens, and 
I can try to work through it with you.

--"J"