On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 02:22:52PM -0700, forrest curo wrote:
Yeah, just got the libsndfile package... which synaptic was not pointing to when I searched on 'sndfile', oh well.
[Googling 'sndfile.h' had gotten me directly to one downloadable version, but evidently the wrong one.]
Unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing I'd install anything that has a package through the package manager. There are exceptions, for example if you need something bleeding edge, but those are rare. ChucK is a exception, libsndfile (which is very common) is not. The thing is; you need "libsndfile" to use sndfile on your system, quite likely you already had it. You also need "libsndfile-dev" to tell the software you are compiling how to access your sndfile library. Because of that the two need to match. If you have lib-cool version 123 then you also need lib-cool-dev version 123 to compile against your lib-cool. Getting -say- lib-cool-dev version 456 in that case will mean no cool stuff for you. (there is no "lib-cool" that I know of, it's just a imaginary library doing cool stuff that we'd like to use). Your package manager will sort that out for you. That is why I tend to ask it to install the "-dev" version of anything I need to compile against; that way the library itself will be pulled in by that operation and I am sure they will match. Hope that helps, Kas.