Re: How do I make sounds ?

[Paddy Smith]

On 1/14/07, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Paddy Smith schrieb:
> > is gsnd current?  I don't seem to have one in my debian packages,
> > and I couldn't get the source (from that package) to compile.
> >
> > when I try to use NSSound I get told about gsnd.
> >
> > I looked at cynthiune, and that will make sounds, but it knows about
> > the whole menagerie of sound systems.
> >
> > I only need to do application sound effects, not specialist audio.
> >
>
> I am not sure, I did understand your problem.
>
> GNUstep gui uses a tool called gnustep_sndd to produce audio. This
> program is located in the Tools section of GNUstep gui. When you compile
> GNUstep, and the necessary libraries are available, this tool should be
> compiled as well.

okay, this is what I needed to know, thank you.

The combination of the three data points I gave lead me to wonder
whether I was missing something, and perhaps I still am, but having
that single point to navigate by: that gnustep_sndd is the way, and
should work, gives me plenty to work with.

Indeed, I realise now that I was searching on the string 'gsnd' for a
debian package, which was silly because I'd seen 'gnustep_sndd' written,
but when I couldn't immediately find it in the binaries I went back to
the source and went from the gsnd name there without looking too
closely (cos it looked similar enough I imagined that it built to
gnustep_gsndd)

When I search for 'sndd'  I turn up only a hit in debian stable,
not the current testing, so I guess I'm loooking at a bug in the
testing packages.

> What I don't know is, how this tool gets packaged up in debian packages.
> Will the tool come along with the rest of gui or be in a separate
> package? I would expect that it is included in the gnustep-gui-runtime
> package. Do I understand your mail correctly, that you are complaining
> there isn't one in there?

yes, it is fairly easy to track which binary packages come from a given
source package, and there are excellent facilities for searching the whole
archive for files and so on.  It was the combination of tripping over the
name, the long spans of time, and the cynthiune thing that caused me
to really wonder.

Once again, many thanks.  I'm chasing so many different little bits
of info at once that it's a life-saver to be able to get a reality check
like this, instead of scratching my head for a long time.

Regards,
Paddy