Wine sound discussion summary

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Reece Dunn wrote:
[...]
> > Is PulseAudio supported on Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris?
> > If not then we'd need an alternative for these platforms.
> 
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#SupportedOperatingSystems:
>     * Linux (any modern distribution)
>     * Solaris
>     * FreeBSD
>     * NetBSD
>     * Native Win32 (no cygwin)

Actually I did not find any libpulse or libopenal library on my Solaris 
10u5 or Solaris 10 Companion DVDs. So they are both non-standard on this 
platform, meaning that unless Wine ships with them, then users of these 
platforms would have no sound.

Concerning FreeBSD 7.0, neither are available as a package but both are 
available as a port. So FreeBSD users are unlikely to have them 
preinstalled but at least they have a reasonably easy and _standard_ way 
of installing them.

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