Building OSSv4 from source
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Building the OSS sound system from source
Requirements to build the source code
- OS: Linux 2.6+, Solaris v10+, FreeBSD 6+, UnixWare7
- OS system headers, development libraries
- Compiler: GCC, Sun Studio 10+, UnixWare C Compiler
- Tools: GNU gawk - (Solaris versions at: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xml) (used for creating man pages)
- Graphics Libraries: Runtime libraries and header files for GTK1 or for GTK2 (used by ossxmix)
Building the source
Obtain the latest stable source tarball for the OSS package.
Make the source directory, current
cd /usr/src
Extract the source tarball
bunzip2 -c ~/oss-v4.0-build*-src-gpl.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
Create a build directory, and make it current
mkdir ~/oss cd ~/oss
Do not use a directory which is a subdirectory of the extracted source - the configure script will fail.
Run the configure script
Note that the configure script must be invoked using a full pathname. An error will occur during build, if a relative pathname is used
/usr/src/oss-v4.0-build*-src-gpl/configure
Run make build
make build
Installing the OSS kernel modules
The kernel modules are build during a separate phase of the installation. It is necessary to become root to build the kernel modules:
su root make install
This will create the appropriate kernel modules, and the Open Sound System tools.
Installation is now complete.
Testing the Open Sound System
To test the Open Sound System:
soundon osstest
Errors during build
Error: Cannot open: No such file or directory
This error can occur when tar tries to extract to /usr/src but doesn't have write permissions.
bunzip2 -c /tmp/oss-v4.1-build*-src-gpl.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - oss-v4.1-build080509-src-gpl/RELNOTES.txt tar: oss-v4.1-build080509-src-gpl/RELNOTES.txt: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Resolution
Use a directory which you have write permissions to, or change to root (su/sudo), or change /usr/src permissions to allow writing.
Error: Too many levels of symbolic links
This error may occur when the configure script is being run within a subdirectory of the project directory:
# This may produce an error cd ~/oss-v4.1-build*-src-gpl mkdir build cd build ../configure
This produces an error:
../build/cmd/.config: Too many levels of symbolic links
Resolution
Use a build directory outside of the current project directory:
cd ~/ mkdir oss cd oss `pwd`/../oss-v4.1-build*-src-gpl/configure
Error: No such file or directory
The configure script must be invoked using a full pathname. This error occurs, if a relative pathname is used. This restriction does not apply to 4.1.
Scanning . Scanning ./cmd Scanning ./cmd/ossdevlinks ./cmd/ossdevlinks/ossdevlinks.c: No such file or directory
Resolution
Invoke the configure script with a full pathname.
Error: undefined reference to `oss_strcmp'
ossdevlinks.c:(.text+0x21c): undefined reference to `oss_strcmp'
Resolution
You probably have had CFLAGS, OSFLAGS or LIBRARIES set in the environment before running configure. The best option is to unset them all and not to try to pass manual flags via configure - it's unlikely any flags will provide any performance gain at all, and far more likely they'll make the compilation fail somewhere.
