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installed openal.. no sound.

by Paul Scott · in Torque Game Engine · 01/31/2003 (9:39 pm) · 2 replies

I've just reformatted & reinstalled OSX.2, so i'm still working on getting 2 years of stuff reconstructed... One of which is OpenAL.

Now, I've installed the package I downloaded from the creative site, but none of the Torque builds I have will play sounds. They all fail to load the driver for openAL.
I rebooted, nojoy.
I rebuilt the projects, no complaints from the linker, still nojoy.

what am I missing here?

#1
02/01/2003 (12:32 am)
Urg. Sorted it... silly prob...

The OpenAL installer puts the OpenAL.framework in the /Library/Frameworks/ folder.
Apperanly, no apps will see it unless it lives in /System/Library/Frameworks/. Once I moved the framwork there, it worked like a charm.
#2
02/01/2003 (9:35 am)
I added newer code to try and locate it in the Library folder... but I haven't yet proven it works.

There are more explicit ways to point to the directory... they may just need to be experimented with...

And, that change was a recent change on the part of Creative, responding to 'doctrine' coming from Apple that only Apple frameworks should be putting themselves into the System subfolders.

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