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SoX: Sound eXchange Installation This distribution will compile and run on most UNIX systems. It was originally developed on a UNIX/386 machine running AT&T V.3.2 but its currently developed under Linux. With little work it should work with most UNIX-like systems. Compiling --------- The preferred method for compiling SoX is to use the "configure" scripts compatible with most UNIX systems that contain "/bin/sh" or equivalent (even the Window's Cygwin setup will work with this). 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. If your system works with the "configure" script then you may skip to the Optional Compiling section. If your system does not work with the configure scripts then there are several canned "Makefile"'s that you can use inside the src directory. The following systems have a canned Makefile: DOS Makefile.dos (Borland or Turbo C) WIN95/NT Makefile.dos (Needs modifying for Visual C++) OS/2 Makefile.gcc (using EMX GCC compiler) To use a canned Makefile, a few steps need to be completed. First up, you need to make a copy of stconfig.h.in and call it stconfig.h. Modify this file to reflect your environment. FIXME: A file called ststdint.h needs to be created as well. This is the same as stdint.h if your system has it. After that, copy either Makefile.dos or Makefile.gcc to a file called Makefile. This needs to be done in both the src directory and the src/gsm directory. This file also needs to be modified to reflect your environment. Optional Compile Features ------------------------- A GSM library is included with SoX. More information on this library can be obtained from http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html. If this library fails to compile on your system, you can specify --disable-gsm to prevent it from being compiled in. 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. 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.