Fixing Bucklespring for Windows

[vipulgupta2048]

Hi @zevv, First of all, I love Bucklesping and I am willing to try and fix it for Windows. Like you I too, don't know much about Windows and its development. All my development goes on Linux too. So if you can help me get started then I can probably get it fixed.

• What is broken?
• Any fixes you have in mind?
• What all should I learn?
• A little about the code you already wrote?

Also, I have taken this on as a project at my college so if this doesn't work out. I might find another way of making the same thing and packaging it in .exe

[zevv]

Quoting Vipul Gupta (2018-05-11 08:36:04)

- What is broken?

I'm not exactly sure, but if I recall correctly it has something to do with the OpenAL library used by bucklespring, my notes say something about `alureCreateBufferFromFile` and threads, that's all I know :)

- Any fixes you have in mind?

No idea - I do not have machines running Windows in my neighbourhood, and I never seem to be able to do simple debugging on windows with simple tools (i.e. gdb), so I'm not even sure where to start.

- What all should I learn?

To get started you could first build and run buckle on Linux to see things working as they should - there's not much to the code: just reading events from the keyboard, and playing a sample with OpenAL. Then build for windows, and see what works and what does not. I believe the keyboard handling is just fine (scan-windows.c), and the problem is somewhere in the interaction with the OpenAL lib. Good luck!

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[Kamek437]

Necro. I wish this worked on windows. All the other alternatives are waaaay to heavy on resources for me. I don't want to run a full electron instance just for keyboard sounds. I know it's nota high priority but would love to use it on windows. Got used to it on my NixOS box.

[KreaeTerra]

Yeah I'd hate to necro but this used to be my favorite mostly because of the directional keypress audio other similar software seems to lack. Wish someone could fix it.

[jalbarl]

I recently built bucklespring on Windows using VS Build Tools 2022 (32-bit: openal-soft-1.23.1 official binaries + alure-1.2 official binaries; 64-bit: openal-soft-1.23.1 official binaries + alure-1.x latest branch) and I am not experiencing any crashes, missing sound or odd behavior.

I had some build struggles due to the missing getopt library and I had to create my own Makefile, but otherwise it seems to Just Work™.

[Kamek437]

Creating your own makefiles isn't "just works".

[jalbarl]

Creating your own makefiles isn't "just works".

That was only needed in my specific setup, because I wanted to build bucklespring using the Microsoft tools.

The existing Makefile should work as advertised under MinGW/MSYS2. And the Windows-specific bug might no longer be an issue when using the latest library versions.

[RezaTaheri01]

I created a similar project using Python with the same functionality for Windows. Feel free to try it out :)

[Kamek437]

Awesome thanks man! Will definitely check it out.