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ALAC
This repository is a clone of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) repository at http://alac.macosforge.org with added files to enable it to be built using GNU autotools
. Use it to build and install the ALAC library libalac
.
The added files are based on work done by Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu in his repository https://github.com/TimothyGu/alac with some changes. Many thanks to him for his work. This respository is bare-bones – for Visual Studio or Debian packaging support or for man
pages, please go to Timothy's repository.
Download, Build, Install
To download, build and install libalac
do the following:
- Clone the repository and
cd
into the folder:
$ git clone https://github.com/mikebrady/alac.git
$ cd alac
- Configure the build and make the library:
$ autoreconf -fi
$ ./configure
$ make
The autoconfigure
command may take a long time. You may get a warning which you can ignore:
aclocal: warning: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
- Install the library:
# make install
Make it Available
- Finally, to make the library visible during compilation, you need to tell
ld
about it. Be careful here – if you are on FreeBSD, the Linux commands will mess up your system. On Linux, use the following command:
# ldconfig -v
On FreeBSD you must add the location of the alac.pc
file to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
, if it exists, and define it otherwise. Here is what you do if it doesn't already exist:
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
That's it – the library can now be linked to via pkg-config
: the module name is alac
, thus:
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ALAC], [alac], [LIBS="${ALAC_LIBS} ${LIBS}"])
should work. If you are using AC_CHECK_LIB
, something like this will work:
AC_CHECK_LIB([alac], [BitBufferInit], , AC_MSG_ERROR(Apple ALAC Decoder support requires the alac library!))