On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, kaiduan xie wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am going to port a Linux program that read/write the > soundcard with OSS driver to Cygwin. Can anyone tell > me if it is possible to use the OSS API as in Linux to > read/write the soundcard?
Depends on what the OSS API does. AFAIK, nobody released an OSS (whatever that is) library for Cygwin, so I guess the answer is "no". Whether it's possible to port the OSS library to Cygwin remains to be seen... FWIW, /dev/dsp *is* partially implemented in Cygwin. > If not, how to do that in Cygwin? Thanks. How to do what? Access the soundcard? Try 'cat a.wav > /dev/dsp' to write to the soundcard. AFAICS in the code, the 'read()' method is dummied out, so I guess it's not possible to read from the soundcard (i.e., record from the microphone). This guess is confirmed by <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg00628.html>. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. You're welcome to try to add the recording (i.e., reading) support to fhandler_dsp.cc in the Cygwin sources. There was some discussion on cygwin-patches that may point you in the right direction (notably <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q3/msg00112.html>). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
