[freespace2] CVS build problem (OpenAL + amd64) and questions

[fatty]

fatty wrote:
> fatty wrote:
> 
>> For everyone, who doesn't want to downgrade to OpenAL 1.0 I have 
>> attached the modified patch.
> 
> 
> Shame on me! I forgot to attach the patch.
> 
> Some additional notes: With that patch you are still able to compile 
> against OpenAL 1.0, but it defaults to 1.1 when found.
> 
> btw: ds_sound_context on line 598 should be from type ALCcontext instead 
> of void to conform to the OpenAL-API (both, 1.0 and 1.1). I have that 
> allready changed in my patch.
> 
> 
> Stephan "fatty" Wurm
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Index: src/sound/ds.cpp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/cvsroot/freespace2/src/sound/ds.cpp,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -r1.24 ds.cpp
> --- src/sound/ds.cpp	13 Aug 2005 17:01:34 -0000	1.24
> +++ src/sound/ds.cpp	1 Oct 2005 14:57:22 -0000
> @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
>  #endif
>  
>  ALCdevice *ds_sound_device = NULL;
> -void *ds_sound_context = NULL;
> +ALCcontext *ds_sound_context = NULL;
>  
>  
>  //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @@ -1501,7 +1501,11 @@
>  	nprintf(( "Sound", "SOUND ==> Initializing OpenAL...\n" ));
>  
>  	// load OpenAL
> +#ifdef AL_VERSION_1_1 
> +	ds_sound_device = alcOpenDevice( (const ALCchar*)initStr );
> +#else
>  	ds_sound_device = alcOpenDevice( initStr );
> +#endif
>  
>  	if (ds_sound_device == NULL) {
>  		nprintf(("Sound", "SOUND ==> Couldn't open OpenAL device\n"));
> @@ -1560,7 +1564,11 @@
>  #endif
>  
>  	// make sure we can actually use AL_BYTE_LOKI (Mac OpenAL doesn't have it)
> +#ifdef AL_VERSION_1_1
> +	AL_play_position = alIsExtensionPresent( (const ALchar*)"AL_LOKI_play_position" );
> +#else
>  	AL_play_position = alIsExtensionPresent( (ALubyte*)"AL_LOKI_play_position" );
> +#endif
>  
>  	// Initialize DirectSound3D.  Since software performance of DirectSound3D is unacceptably
>  	// slow, we require the voice manger (a DirectSound extension) to be present.  The 

After the latest changes in OpenAL cvs I finally got FreeSpace 1 working 
with OpenAL 1.1.
I only had to use my simple patch and everything was fine that time :)

mfG fatty