Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] audio patch queue

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Di, 2015-06-09 at 15:29 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 June 2015 at 15:13, Kővágó Zoltán <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 2015-06-09 15:03 keltezéssel, Peter Maydell írta:
> >>
> >>
> >> ...and a further long list of errors which I assume are mostly
> >> run-on from not finding the header file.
> >>
> >> This looks like it's because configure is now using
> >> "dsound" by default rather than "winwave".
> >
> >
> > Yes, the winwave backend was removed, so dsound is the new default.
> 
> Right, but you can't break compilation. At a minimum, we
> need a configure test so we don't try to build the dsound
> backend unless the compile environment supports it.

Yes.

> We might also want to consider retaining the winwave backend
> as a fallback.

I'd rather require a recent enough mingw compiler version for sound
support on windows.  DirectSound isn't exactly new, it was added with
Windows 95 (20 years ago!).  winwave is even older.

cheers,
  Gerd