Concerning the separate OpenAL32.dll thunk patch and OpenAL winmm driver patch

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Donnerstag 30 November 2006 08:44 schrieb Steven Edwards:
> On 11/30/06, Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel.ch> wrote:
> > Vista drops DirectSound or better said, the EAX effects won't work
> > anymore. That's why Creative Labs switches over to OpenAL. So it might
> > become much more important in the future.
>
> If Creative switched over to using it then I expect all of the future
> drivers they post that are WHQL will have this dll. I'd say this makes
> it worth installing. Someone should check if new vista driver
> downloads from Creative include this or even if Windows Update for
> Vista loads it.
What makes it worth including it in wine is that a huge number of games use it 
too. Thunking directly to the Linux / macos openal lib avoids the whole 
openal->directsound->winmm->driver->linux audio api rollercoaster.

That said, its not a standard part of windows. There may be other simmilar 
libs(like the Palm Desktop libs I considered writing once). How about a 
seperate wine-3rdpartylibs package containing such things?
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