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Sreram
Asked: 2016-02-19 05:17:46 +0800 CST

How do I link the OpenAL library to eclipse in Ubuntu?

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I just downloaded the OpenAL library using the command sudo apt-get install libopenal1 libopenal-dev, now I can't find where the library is on my system and how should it be linked with Eclipse. I am new to Ubuntu hence I am not familiar with how Ubuntu's file system works.

Thanks in Advance.

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  1. As far as I can tell, the libopenal-dev package installs its headers to /usr/include/AL/ so (since /usr/include is a standard search path) provided you include them as <AL/whatever.h> you should not need to do anything else.

    Similarly, the library goes in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ (or its 32-bit equivalent) so it should just be a matter of adding openal to the list of libraries in your project settings.

    FYI since the package appears to provide a .pc file, you can always run pkg-config --cflags --libs on the command line and copy the relevant flags and settings from there.

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