/* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
- * Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Xiph.org Foundation
+ * Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 Josh Coalson
*
* This file is part the FLAC project. FLAC is comprised of several
* components distributed under difference licenses. The codec libraries
*/
-FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) is an Open Source lossless audio
-codec developed by Josh Coalson.
+FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec developed by Josh Coalson from 2001
+to 2009.
+
+From January 2012 FLAC is being maintained by Erik de Castro Lopo under the
+auspices of the Xiph.org Foundation.
FLAC is comprised of
* `libFLAC', a library which implements reference encoders and
assembly routines. Many routines have assembly versions for
speed and `configure' is pretty good about knowing what is
supported, but you can use this option to build only from the
-C sources.
+C sources. May be necessary for building on OS X (Intel)
--enable-sse : If you are building for an x86 CPU that supports
SSE instructions, you can enable some of the faster routines
Building with MSVC
===============================================================================
-There are .dsp projects and a master FLAC.dsw workspace to build all
-the libraries and executables with MSVC6. There are also .vcproj
-projects and a master FLAC.sln solution to build all the libraries and
-executables with VC++ 2005.
+There are .vcproj projects and a master FLAC.sln solution to build all
+the libraries and executables with MSVC 2005 or newer.
Prerequisite: you must have the Ogg libraries installed as described
later.
-Prerequisite: you must have nasm installed, and nasmw.exe must be in
-your PATH, or the path to nasmw.exe must be added to the list of
+Prerequisite: you must have nasm installed, and nasm.exe must be in
+your PATH, or the path to nasm.exe must be added to the list of
directories for executable files in the MSVC global options.
-MSVC6:
-To build everything, run Developer Studio, do File|Open Workspace,
-and open FLAC.dsw. Select "Build | Set active configuration..."
-from the menu, then in the dialog, select "All - Win32 Release" (or
-Debug if you prefer). Click "Ok" then hit F7 to build.
-
VC++ 2005:
To build everything, run Visual Studio, do File|Open and open FLAC.sln.
From the dropdown in the toolbar, select "Release" instead of "Debug",
then hit F7 to build.
-Either way, this will build all libraries both statically (e.g.
-obj\release\lib\libFLAC_static.lib) and as DLLs (e.g.
-obj\release\lib\libFLAC.dll), and it will build all binaries, statically
-linked (e.g. obj\release\bin\flac.exe).
+This will build all libraries both statically (e.g.
+objs\release\lib\libFLAC_static.lib) and as DLLs (e.g.
+objs\release\lib\libFLAC.dll), and it will build all binaries, statically
+linked (e.g. objs\release\bin\flac.exe).
-Everything will end up in the "obj" directory. DLLs and .exe files
+Everything will end up in the "objs" directory. DLLs and .exe files
are all that are needed and can be copied to an installation area and
-added to the PATH. The plugins have to be copied to their appropriate
-place in the player area. For Winamp2 this is <winamp2-dir>\Plugins.
+added to the PATH.
-By default the code is configured with Ogg support. Before building FLAC
+By default the code is configured with Ogg support. Before building FLAC
you will need to get the Ogg source distribution
-(see http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/), build ogg_static.lib (load and
-build win32\ogg_static.dsp), copy ogg_static.lib into FLAC's
-'obj\release\lib' directory, and copy the entire include\ogg tree into
-FLAC's 'include' directory (so that there is an 'ogg' directory in FLAC's
+(see http://xiph.org/downloads/), build libogg_static.lib (load
+win32\libogg_static.sln, change solution configuration to "Release" and
+code generation to "Multi-threaded (/MT)", then build), copy libogg_static.lib
+into FLAC's 'objs\release\lib' directory, and copy the entire include\ogg tree
+into FLAC's 'include' directory (so that there is an 'ogg' directory in FLAC's
'include' directory with the files ogg.h, os_types.h and config_types.h).
-If you want to build without Ogg support, instead edit all .dsp or
-.vcproj files and remove any occurrences of "/D FLAC__HAS_OGG".
+If you want to build without Ogg support, instead edit all .vcproj files
+and remove any "FLAC__HAS_OGG" definitions.
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