From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-03-22T02:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: FMOD or other sound libraries...anyone?

On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:49 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:

>
> 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.'

That's the one. However, my bindings are Ruby/DL based, which means 
Ruby tries to load the library and execute the code directly, without a 
compiled glue-layer. I'm sure an enterprising individual could write a 
C extension to Ruby that used the FMOD routines...but I'd rather not 
have to.

- Jamis