Re: pcm_jack and jack chicken-and-egg situation

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:11:57 +0100,
Maarten de Boer wrote:
> 
> Bob Ham <rah@bash.sh> wrote:
> > The new pcm_jack thing presents a bit of a chicken and egg problem; I
> > just compiled alsa-lib twice because jack depends on alsa-lib and if you
> > configure alsa-lib with jack support, it depends on jack.  Would it be
> > possible for pcm_jack to be distributed seperately?
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> That's indeed a problem I did not realize... And there is an another,
> related problem, which is that with binary distributions, you have 
> to either distribute to versions, one linked against jack and one not
> linked against jack.
> 
> The ALSA plugin's are all compiled into the library. It would indeed be
> nice if each plugin would be a seperate shared object.

you can specify the so file and the function name via pcm_type
definition:

	pcm_type.foo {
		comment foo type plugin
		lib /usr/lib/libfoo.so
		open my_foo_open
	}


Takashi


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