OpenAL not found issue

[Duion]

It happened from time to time that people reported me that on Linux they had no sound because "OpenAL not found" failed to be detected.

After a distribution upgrade I had the same issue, it was very mysterious, because I had openAL installed, after trying random things I installed also the "openal-soft-devel" library and suddenly the problem was solved, the game would detect openAL and sound would work.

Now my question is: Why is that so? Someone said that when running the executable it does not list requiring OpenAL at all.

I'm using the "old" aka the current version of the engine, but I wonder if anyone had encountered similar issues and/or has fixed it already.

[LukasPJ]

Could it be related to this?

Linux : loading `libopenal.so` without having to install `libopenal-dev` · Issue #505 · TorqueGameEngines/Torque3D (github.com)

 

(This PR: Linux BugFix: OpenAL Loading by Ragora · Pull Request #532 · TorqueGameEngines/Torque3D (github.com))

 

Could you try installing libopenal-dev and see if that fixes it?

If it does, then you probably want to backport that PR in your version of the engine.

 

Edit: Also, as I understand the issue on GitHub, it's supposed to use the OpenAL that's bundled with Torque3D (libopenal.so.1) but it didn't. So that's why it shouldn't be a requirement per se. Also I don't think it technically "requires" OpenAL because you can run it with null devices, but you know.. You're gonna have a bad time without it.

[Duion]

I wrote in my post that installing the dev version of the lib solved it.

[LukasPJ]

Sorry missed that, then I’m guessing that, that PR would fix it. But you probably have to backport it to your version.

[Duion]

It is not that important I just wonder if that is fixed already, so I don't have to bother with it, normally I would just upgrade my game to the latest engine version to get the fixes, but that is not possible now, since there are no more releases.