You'll have to install the portaudio C libraries and header files before continuing. I never actually tested the package on XP, if you get it to work, I'd love to hear your experience.
/jve On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, M Xyz <functionallyharmoni...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Hi, > > portaudio is my embarrassing fault, but it does work most of the time. > (Community, some one remind me to revisit this package after Christmas.) > > Are you running in Windows? Linux? If Linux, which flavor? > > /jve > > > I'm using Haskell on XP but I dual boot with Ubuntu 9 and I'd prefer not to > break compatibility. I'm new to this, was I supposed to install portaudio > for my OS before downloading the Haskell package? Are there other similar > simple sound apis? > > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, M Xyz > <functionallyharmoni...@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=functionallyharmoni...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > >> >> What is the most minimal (preferably platform independent) library >> available for writing bytes to the sound card? I see 60 wonderful libraries >> on Hackage, but I really just need the Haskell equivalent of an >> audio.write(byte[]) method. What sound api are these 60 libraries using? >> >> I think the portaudio library is the only contender but when I try to >> install it I get: >> >> >cabal install portaudio >> Resolving dependencies... >> Downloading portaudio-0.0.1... >> Configuring portaudio-0.0.1... >> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: >> * Missing C library: portaudio >> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that >> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is >> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the >> flags >> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is. >> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: >> portaudio-0.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: >> exit: ExitFailure 1 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org <http://mc/compose?to=haskell-c...@haskell.org> >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> > >
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