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Apple Lossless Audio Codec with autotools, Debian toolchain, and Visual Studio project files
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Apple Lossless Audio Codec with autotools, Debian toolchain, and Visual Studio project files
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/timothygu/alac
- Owner: TimothyGu
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2013-05-27T21:09:50.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2014-04-27T17:29:22.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-13T17:31:28.367Z (11 days ago)
- Language: C++
- Homepage: alac.macosforge.org
- Size: 733 KB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 8
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
ALAC
====
Apple Lossless Audio Codec with autotools. This repo uses the source
code from http://alac.macosforge.org/ and wrap it around using
autotools and Debian build toolchain.
**This thing is unmaintained. Use this on your own risk.**
## Prerequisites, if you want to build it yourself
* git: to clone this repo. Optional if you are using a tarball.
* gcc: to compile stuff.
* g++: to compile stuff.
* autotools: to generate the build files.
## How to build
### Classic GNU
```bash
autoreconf -i -f
./configure
# Or if you want to
# ./configure --enable-example
make
sudo make install
```
### Debian packaging
This method works if:
* You are using a system using dpkg (like Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)
* And you want .deb's.
**I strongly suggest you to know how the Debian packaging works before
using this method.**
1. You need to have a packaging environment.
* If you are a maintainer or you know how to package a deb or you have
a PPA, skip to step 3.
* If you don't know anything about Debian packaging, go to step 2.
2. Set up packaging environment.
* Look [here](http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/start.en.html)
for Debian users and [here](http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/getting-set-up.html)
for Ubuntu users.
3. Edit debian/changelog.
* Change my name to your name, and my email to your email.
* Change raring to whatever your distro codename is.
4. Do:
```
dpkg-buildpackage
```
5. The .deb's will be in the parent folder of the source code directory.
### Visual Studio
** The resulting binary might not work. I don't know why. Do this on
your own risk.**
1. Go to compat.
2. Go to corresponding folder match your VS version.
3. Open up the solution and build it.
## What's included
* libalac, a library for ALAC en-/decoding.
* alacconvert, an example program using libalac to convert wav (in wav
or caf container) to alac (in caf container) or vice versa. It will only
build if you pass `--enable-example` to `configure`.
## Documentation
### `alacconvert`
Look at the man page.
### The library
Either look at the .txt's in the repo or go to
[Apple's website](http://alac.macosforge.org/).
## Bugs Report
If you found some difficulty building it, open a new issue. Otherwise,
don't bother me. Note that I am not a programmer. So if you have any
patch regarding the sources I'm sorry I can't apply it. But if it is
about the building system, feel free to open a new pull request or
an issue.
## Versioning scheme
(upstream_major).(upstream_minor)r(upstream_revision)+tg(my_release_number)
The upstream major and minor are both 0 because Apple never made a
release. The upstream revision is 4 because the SVN revision I pulled out
from is 4. My release number is of course my release number. "tg" is my
initials.
## Authors
* debian/*, Makefile.am, */Makefile.am, alac.pc.in,
alacconvert.1, configure.ac, README.md:
**Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu**
* The rest: **Apple Inc.**
## To-do
* PPA
* `EXTRA_DIST` variable in Makefile.am's