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SoX Installation
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This distribution will compile and run on most UNIX systems. It was
originally developed on a UNIX/386 machine running AT&T V3.2 but it's
currently developed under Linux. With a little work it should work
with most POSIX systems.
Compiling
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[Only if you're compiling the CVS sources, first make sure you have
the GNU autotools installed (automake 1.9, autoconf >= 2.59) and run
autoreconf -i
]
The preferred method for compiling SoX is to use the "configure"
scripts compatible with most UNIX systems that contain "/bin/sh" or
equivalent (it can also be used on Windows with Cygwin).
To compile and install SoX on these platforms run the following
commands:
./configure
make
make install
There are several optional parameters that you may pass to the
configure script to customize SoX for your applications. Run
./configure --help
for a complete list of options.
Optional Compile Features
-------------------------
For some optional features you need pkg-config; if you don't have it,
these features won't be available even if the relevant packages are
installed.
SoX can make use of Ogg Vorbis libraries to read and write Ogg Vorbis
files. Normally, the configure script will auto detect this library
and enable support for Ogg Vorbis. The Ogg Vorbis library can be
obtained from http://www.vorbis.com
SoX can make use of MP3 libraries to read and write MP3 files.
Normally, the configure script will auto detect these libraries and
enable support for MP3. SoX requires libmad for reading MP3 files and
lame for writing MP3 files. Libmad can be obtained from
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ and lame can be obtained from
http://mitiok.cjb.net/
If any libraries are installed in a non-standard locations in your
system then you can use the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables to allow
configure to find them. For example:
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/home/sox/include -I/usr/local/multimedia/include" LDFLAGS="-L/home/sox/lib -L/usr/local/multimedia/lib"
If you're not processing lots of u-law or A-law files and would like
to save around 64K of memory when SoX is executed then you can use
runtime routines to perform u-law/A-law conversions. This is slower
then the default lookup tables but results in the same answers. To
save this memory, specify --disable-fast-ulaw and --disable-fast-alaw.
Testing
-------
After successfully compiling SoX, try translating a sound file. If you
can play one of the supported sound file formats, translate
'monkey.wav' to your format (we'll use 'xxx'):
cd src
./sox monkey.wav monkey.xxx
You may have to give the word size and rate for the file. For example,
this command will make a sound file with a data rate of 12,500 samples
per second and the data formatted as signed shorts:
./sox monkey.voc -r 12500 -s -w monkey.xxx
If monkey.xxx plays properly (it's a very short monkey screech),
congratulations! SoX works.
After that, running "tests.sh" and "testall.sh" ("tests.bat" and
"testall.bat" for DOS) tests most of the implemented file handlers to
make sure that some portability issue haven't popped up.