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Diffstat (limited to 'recordmydesktop/INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | recordmydesktop/INSTALL | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/recordmydesktop/INSTALL b/recordmydesktop/INSTALL index 14de910..227629f 100644 --- a/recordmydesktop/INSTALL +++ b/recordmydesktop/INSTALL @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ If you got a release tarball, to compile the program you have to go through the You will need the development headers(i.e. packages ending with -dev or -devel depending on the distribution you use) for the following: -alsa (libasound) X libICE-dev libSM-dev @@ -31,6 +30,13 @@ libogg libvorbis libtheora +If you want to compile with ALSA support, you will also +need the libasound headers.If they are not found, OSS +will be used and you must have the sys/soundcard.h header. +To use OSS regardless of whether or not you have the ALSA +headers, you can use the --enable-oss switch during +configuration. + Last, you need the regular headers, plus the ones for pthreads @@ -40,8 +46,4 @@ Of the above, the most likely to be missing are probably those of libXdamage and but any recent linux distribution should offer an easy way to get them. -Compiling on *BSD or other *nix flavors is not going to work(because of the alsa dependency) -but it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to change that(at least by disabling sound capture). -Future versions might include support for OSS-based sound capture. -If you are interested in this please let me know. |