Windows Support

[ssfrr]

Pretty much the only thing that should need to be fixed to work in windows is the synchronization between the Julia task and the C PortAudio callback. Currently we're using a POSIX semaphore and a file descriptor. I'm not sure what the best windows equivalents are.

-s

[vtjnash]

looks like you've removed the requirement for this?

it also would be nice to hook up BinDeps support, esp. since both portaudio and libsndfile are already available via WinRPM

[ssfrr]

which change are you referring to? I've got the issue up but windows support hasn't been a priority.

I was avoiding Windows support because of the custom C shim and multithreading gymnastics I was doing before, but now that those are gone it should be pretty easy.

I just added the WinRPM lines to REQUIRE and build.jl, though I had to guess at the package names. Is there a list of WinRPM packages online somewhere?

[ssfrr]

Via email Aitor Ortiz de Latierro Olivella informed me that the packages are:

• "libportaudio2" (libportaudio2 (mingw64) - Portable Real-Time Audio Library)
• "libsndfile1" (libsndfile1 (mingw64) - A Library to Handle Various Audio File Formats)

I changed the names in the package script, hopefully that helps. If anyone can test on Windows please let me know.

[aiorla]

Now this message appears just after the "INFO: Complete" of the libportaudio2 installation.

===============================[ ERROR: AudioIO ]===============================

Provider PackageManager failed to satisfy dependency libportaudio
while loading C:\Users\Aitor.julia\v0.3\AudioIO\deps\build.jl, in expression st
arting on line 29

================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================

WARNING: AudioIO had build errors.

• packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\Aitor.julia\v0.3
• build a package and all its dependencies with Pkg.build(pkg)
• build a single package by running its deps/build.jl script

[ssfrr]

Hmm, what happens if you try to use AudioIO even though the build throws the error? Are you able to play sound?

[aiorla]

With just "using AudioIO":

ERROR: could not open file C:\Users\Aitor.julia\v0.3\AudioIO\src../deps/deps.j
l
in include at boot.jl:245
in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
in include at boot.jl:245
in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
in reload_path at loading.jl:152
in _require at loading.jl:67
in require at loading.jl:51
while loading C:\Users\Aitor.julia\v0.3\AudioIO\src\AudioIO.jl, in expression s
tarting on line 60

[aiorla]

I've manually installed "libsndfile1" and the error in the "using AudioIO" doesn't appear. (it is not installed in the build process because of the error)
Now I'm going to try play, I will update this comment with the results shortly. (10 min)

UPDATE: Every method like play, ArrayPlayer, SinOsc, read "is not defined" :(
UPDATE2: On the other hand methods like "AudioIO.open(wavFile)" work.

[ssfrr]

Hi, sorry, I didn't see these updates because apparently GitHub doesn't sent notifications on updates, only new comments.

I'll see if I can get AudioIO up and running on a Windows machine myself so I can better debug. I'll comment back when I have some more info. Probably next week.

[wielrenner]

Still getting the same error on my Windows 10 machine with Julia 0.3.11 when building AudioIO:

===============================[ ERROR: AudioIO ]===============================

Provider PackageManager failed to satisfy dependency libportaudio
while loading C:\Users\Wouter.julia\v0.3\AudioIO\deps\build.jl, in expression s
tarting on line 29

================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================

WARNING: AudioIO had build errors.

• packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\Wouter.julia\v0.3
• build the package(s) and all dependencies with Pkg.build("AudioIO")
• build a single package by running its deps/build.jl script

[rennis250]

I've also been finding this error. Any guesses on what one should do?

[ssfrr]

Are you running the release version or master? If you're not running the latest master try checking it out with Pkg.checkout("AudioIO"). I fixed the package names to what hopefully are the correct ones, but that hasn't made it into a release yet because I haven't tested it.

[wherrera10]

It seems that the RPM provider of libportaudio2 does not provide what AudioIO wants? Or is the build script in error somehow?

According to the RPM page at http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/12.1/i586/portaudio-19-273.1.3.i586.html the RPM provides:

portaudio
libportaudio.so.2
portaudio(x86-32)

Is this what AudioIO needs? Or should a different RPM be used?

[wherrera10]

Ah, here it is: for Windows to build, there have to be aliases. In build.jl the lines need to change to:

libportaudio = library_dependency("libportaudio", aliases=["libportaudio-2"])
libsndfile = library_dependency("libsndfile", aliases=["libsndfile-1"])

[rennis250]

Great! Thanks for that. Will test soon.

[ssfrr]

Thanks for the windows help, @wherrera10. If this change is confirmed working than I'll merge in #50. (I don't think it should break anything on linux or osx and seems a strict improvement on windows).

Thanks!

Also, so you know, AudioIO.jl is going to be deprecated relatively soon and the functionality broken out into separate packages for audio file I/O, device I/O, and building DSP graphs. (see #48 with some more info) Changes like this will definitely make it into the new packages though, so it's definitely still helpful.

[wherrera10]

Thanks. I have an interest in device IO with DSP.

I have recently patched portaudio.jl by adding functionality to use other
than the default stream. Is the portaudio side already undergoing a lot of
revision, so my added functions are not needed?

--Bill

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Spencer Russell notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for the windows help, @wherrera10 https://github.com/wherrera10.
If this change is confirmed working than I'll merge in #50
#50. (I don't think it should
break anything on linux or osx and seems a strict improvement on windows).

Thanks!

Also, so you know, AudioIO.jl is going to be deprecated relatively soon
and the functionality broken out into separate packages for audio file I/O,
device I/O, and building DSP graphs. (see #48
#48 with some more info)
Changes like this will definitely make it into the new packages though, so
it's definitely still helpful.

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[ssfrr]

There is going to be a lot of revision on the PortAudio side, but it's hard to tell at this point what exactly will be preserved across the transition. Certainly being able to select non-default audio streams would be a great feature to carry over, so I'd welcome the PR.

[arnfaldur]

I was wresting with this error on win64 for a while. Strangely enough I had added the @windows_only directive and the library_dependency aliases which didn't do the trick for me. The recent @windows_only change in master and the two lines proposed by @wherrera10 work as expected.

[hiccup7]

I wanted to offer some Windows DLLs for PortAudio that may be helpful. These are from the Python community, but I suspect these DLLs could work for Julia. Especially important to me is that these builds support WASAPI exclusive mode, and they use a recent version of PortAudio where WASAPI exclusive mode is working. Note that Python wheel files are ZIP format, so I use 7-Zip to extract DLLs from them.

These wheel files contain portaudio_x64.dll (and whatever the name is for 32-bit) compiled with the Microsoft compiler:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#sounddevice

The Microsoft compiler version used for each Python version is documented at https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers

These DLLs are built with GCC on Linux:
https://github.com/spatialaudio/portaudio-binaries/tree/19.6.0-windows

I have tested the above DLLs on 64-bit Python 3.5 with Windows 8.1.