From: David Plans Casal <dpc@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T01:49:56+09:00
Subject: Re: FMOD or other sound libraries...anyone?


On 21 Mar 2005, at 15:55, Jamis Buck wrote:

>> I think I remember Jamis mentioned something once... something about
>> Ruby and FMOD, but it might have been a different sound library...
>>
>
> It was FMOD. I wrote some simple bindings for my Vimscriber  
> transcription application, using Ruby/DL, but...alas...I can't get it  
> to work on OSX, which is what the OP seems to want. If only FMOD were  
> opensource, I could compile it to a shared library, but as it is the  
> OSX version of FMOD is only distributed as a static lib. (Someone,  
> please correct me if I'm wrong!)
>
> I, too, would be very interested in Ruby bindings to a sound lib for  
> OSX. Would ruby-cocoa work? Anyone know?

Are you talking about http://www.fmod.org/files/fmodapi3741mac.sit    ?

Their website says 'Carbon based. Codewarrior CFM and GCC Mach-O  
Compatible.'

Also,  I see that there's been some work here:

http://onesadcookie.is-a-geek.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/05/ 
22#openal_ruby

on OpenAL bindings, but it looks seriously alpha...

Jamis, please do let me know what you find! I'm urgently looking to  
start work on Ruby audio...

cheers,

david casal