Message-Id: <202212311957.2BVJv7sI023659@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:55:09 +0100 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) Library 1.3.4 uploaded. 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FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec. FLAC is comprised of * `libFLAC', a library which implements reference encoders and decoders for native FLAC and Ogg FLAC, and a metadata interface * `libFLAC++', a C++ object wrapper library around libFLAC * `flac', a command-line program for encoding and decoding files * `metaflac', a command-line program for viewing and editing FLAC metadata * player plugin for XMMS * user and API documentation The libraries (libFLAC, libFLAC++) are licensed under Xiph.org's BSD-like license (see COPYING.Xiph). All other programs and plugins are licensed under the GNU General Public License. The documentation is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - The port does not support being compiled with assembler optimized code. This also includes disabling SSE support. - The port also does not support being compiled with XMMS (X MultiMedia System) support. - The reading/writing stream is switched into O_BINARY mode. If the stream is connected to stdin/stdout/TTY, then Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break are re-enabled so the user can interrupt the program. - Apart from those changes there are no other user visible ones. Only some small changes have been done to get the library configured and compiled. - Not all tests of the test suite will pass. There are 64 bit issues that I have no plans to fix. Also the test suite requires a port of the "which" program and a port of the "dd" program that supports /dev/zero. AFAIK, all this is not available for DJGPP. The test scripts have been adjusted to not terminate in case of error. Instead they will output a message like this: Expected to fail with DJGPP and some test specific error message will follow. The test suite runs for around 30 min. in a virtual machine with Win98SE as OS. On plain DOS this may take even much more time. - To build and use this port the latest DJGPP ports of libogg and libvorbis: http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/logg135b.zip http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/lvbs137b.zip must be installed. - Because the library name libFLAC++ and the directory name Flac++ are illicit on plain DOS, they have been renamed to libFLACXX and Flacxx. This has the consecuence that Makefiles that use this library must be adjusted accordingly if this port shall be used. - To configure and compile this port at least the following version of Bash, Make and pkg-config are required: http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4253b.zip http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/mak43br2.zip http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pkc023b.zip No previous versions will work nor are supported. Any future version should work. - Newer versions of the FLAC library like 1.4.N have issues that I was not able to solve so I will not port them to DJGPP. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE and MSDOS 6.22 with DOSLFN v0.41f. There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. The port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu2351b. As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build in the "0build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you, delete its contents and configure from scratch again. Please read the docs to become familiar with this product. Here is an extract of the Changelog file showing the user visible changes from the last port (Free Lossless Audio Codec Library 0.0.0) to this one: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first port. Read the documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual two packages that have been produced using djdev20X (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2022-10-24): Free Lossless Audio Codec Library 1.3.4 headers, library and html format documentation: http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/lflc134b.zip Free Lossless Audio Codec Library 1.3.4 source: http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/lflc134s.zip Send Free Lossless Audio Codec Library specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel