From 35902735034335271ddbaf7fb45bce3601f7946a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:51:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document that osspd requirement for using OSS under Linux Without SDL, wxSound doesn't work out of the box on most (all?) contemporary Linux systems, so at least document this. See #14899. --- interface/wx/sound.h | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/interface/wx/sound.h b/interface/wx/sound.h index 0fdcb9d9d1..69756cc91d 100644 --- a/interface/wx/sound.h +++ b/interface/wx/sound.h @@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ This class represents a short sound (loaded from Windows WAV file), that can be stored in memory and played. - Currently this class is implemented on Windows and Unix (and uses either - Open Sound System or Simple DirectMedia Layer). + Currently this class is implemented on Windows and Unix and can use either + Open Sound System (OSS) or Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) under the latter. + Notice that OSS is not provided any more by most, and maybe even all, + Linux systems in 2017 and osspd (OSS Proxy Daemon) package typically needs + to be installed to make it work. @library{wxadv} @category{media}