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cookedcable

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Registered: 2024-06-18

Posts: 1

No sound in PySolFC

PySolFC is a solitaire application. I installed the base package pysolfc as well as the AUR pysolfc-music. When I run the game, I do not hear any background music.

Upon searching I found PySol-Sound-Server.

Note: Linux users should download a special semi-static precompiled module from the PySol homepage to avoid the installation of any additional packages mentioned here. Also see src/setup.py.in for instructions how to build this special module from source.

However I couldn't locate the "special semi-static precompiled moudle" from the PySolFC Homepage so I tried to build from source myself.

> git clone https://github.com/shlomif/pysol-sound-server
> cd pysol-sound-server/src

HOW TO BUILD THE SEMI-STATIC MODULE:
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A) install the Python development package
B) build or install static libraries of current versions of
   libaudiofile, libesd, SDL and smpeg
   (distributions like Debian have packages for all of these)
C) build your own stripped down SDL 1.2.7 library from source
  1) configure SDL with `--disable-shared --disable-arts --disable-video
       --disable-events --disable-cdrom --disable-joystick'
  2) build SDL
  3) copy the resulting library src/.libs/libSDL.a to
     /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.7-disable_video.a
D) build the semi-static pysolsoundserver module
  1) run `./configure'
  2) type `make static'
  3) type `make strip' (optional)
  4) type `make install'

> sudo pacman -Syu --needed audiofile esd sdl12-compat smpeg
error: target not found: esd

I couldn't find SDL1 from Github so I had to skip step C.

> ./configure
> make static
> make strip
> sudo make install

Now there is a directory pysol-sound-server/src/dist which contains pysolsoundserver-3.20-py3.12-linux-x86_64.egg.
The .egg file contains EGG-INFO/, __pycache__, pysolsoundserver.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so and pysolsoundserver.py.

I extracted the contents into ~/.PySolFC/plugins. However I still get no music, even though /usr/share/PySolFC/music does contain music. What went wrong?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,703

Re: No sound in PySolFC

Just a SWAG(*), you might try esd-oss from the AUR

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merlock

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Registered: 2018-10-30

Posts: 262

Re: No sound in PySolFC

Just plain ALSA here, no sound server, no additional music, but have sound effects with no problems.

Obvious question, but have you checked `Options->Sound`?

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