Re: Re: [fluid-dev] Windows Sound Output - directsound (dsound.h)

[josh]

Hello Nils,

Quoting address@hidden:

> Thanks for your interest.
>
> Please take care with the license when handling microsoft code and wine
> or other software. By downloading the SDK you already agreed to their
> license. I am not exactly sure what is allowed and what not, but if
> there is improvement for wines dsound.h in the end please respect the
> rules of clean room reverse engineering.


I wasn't planning on contributing anything to the Wine dsound.h, but  
thanks for mentioning that.  Its sometimes easy to overlook what one  
agrees to with a simple click of a button!


> I think you  can submit dsound.h fixes and you can look at the ms
> dsound.h but shouldn't directly copy functions and data structures "but
> in wine they need to  be similar; the spacing and indentation can
> differ." (Last is a quote from the wine irc channel)
>
> This is a quote from the Winedevs, too:
> "The stuff in headers is not really protected and we can add similar
> stuff to our headers nothing really disallows you from copying data
> structures or functions but don't copy comments and try to keep the
> coding style different (in general ms headers are ugly)"
>
> about the problem:
>
> We build with GUB, and this is how we do it:
> http://github.com/janneke/gub/blob/master/gub/specs/fluidsynth.py
>
> Attached is the dsound.h we use.
>
> Nils

Ok, I'll give the build a try with that file.  Are there any other  
dependencies that you have installed or are you just using the dsound.h?

Josh