Hi, I am new on FreeBSD, I just installed it. As AlsaPlayer, which is my favorite audio player is not available, I installed it. But first, when searching if it was available, I was very surprised to find alsaplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities.
It is almost 7 years than these vulnerabilities are fixed.
To install AlsaPlayer, I first begun with the last release, but as I get in trouble during the compilation, I decided to try with the development version. It is several years I use it on gentoo without any problem, and the internal have been greatly improved by Erik De Castro Lopo, AKA mega-nerd, the main developer of libsndfile. For the users, the main difference is that re-sampling have now a terrific quality.
So I downloaded the GIT zip archive from here. To decompress it, just run
I get some troubles because the build system is not 100% compatible with FreeBSD. That resulted into the following patch
You can save it as alsaplayer.freebsd.patch into the main folder of the sources. To apply it, run
You must have the autotools package, and to generate the configure script, run
To configure the software
and to build it
The required dependencies are glib and pkgconfig. The optional dependencies are alsa-lib, jack-audio-connection-kit, mad, flac, mikmod, nas, vorbis, libsndfile, gtk+, doyzgen, xosd, and nls.
The only thing I didn't succeed succeed to compile is the ccda input plugin. From configure, I get
Do you know what can provide cdrom.h?
EDIT: the title
It is almost 7 years than these vulnerabilities are fixed.
To install AlsaPlayer, I first begun with the last release, but as I get in trouble during the compilation, I decided to try with the development version. It is several years I use it on gentoo without any problem, and the internal have been greatly improved by Erik De Castro Lopo, AKA mega-nerd, the main developer of libsndfile. For the users, the main difference is that re-sampling have now a terrific quality.
So I downloaded the GIT zip archive from here. To decompress it, just run
unzip alsaplayer.master.zip.I get some troubles because the build system is not 100% compatible with FreeBSD. That resulted into the following patch
Code:
diff -ur alsaplayer-orig/app/Makefile.am alsaplayer-master/app/Makefile.am
--- alsaplayer-orig/app/Makefile.am 2013-12-11 19:56:09.000000000 +0100
+++ alsaplayer-master/app/Makefile.am 2014-01-15 06:14:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
endif
-LIBS = -lpthread -ldl $(SUN_LIBS)
+LIBS = -lpthread $(SUN_LIBS)
COMMON_FLAGS = @DFLAGS@ -D_REENTRANT -DADDON_DIR=\"$(ADDON_DIR)\"
diff -ur alsaplayer-orig/configure.ac alsaplayer-master/configure.ac
--- alsaplayer-orig/configure.ac 2013-12-11 19:56:09.000000000 +0100
+++ alsaplayer-master/configure.ac 2014-01-15 06:16:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@
#endif
],
have_alsa=yes
-ALSA_LIB="-lasound"
+ALSA_LIB="-L/usr/local/lib -lasound"
AC_MSG_RESULT([found latest])
)
diff -ur alsaplayer-orig/input/sndfile/sndfile_engine.c alsaplayer-master/input/sndfile/sndfile_engine.c
--- alsaplayer-orig/input/sndfile/sndfile_engine.c 2013-12-11 19:56:09.000000000 +0100
+++ alsaplayer-master/input/sndfile/sndfile_engine.c 2014-01-15 06:14:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
*/
#include <stdio.h>
-#include <alloca.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <string.h>You can save it as alsaplayer.freebsd.patch into the main folder of the sources. To apply it, run
patch -p1 <alsaplayer.freebsd.patchYou must have the autotools package, and to generate the configure script, run
./bootstrapTo configure the software
LIBS='-L/usr/local/lib' ./configureand to build it
makeThe required dependencies are glib and pkgconfig. The optional dependencies are alsa-lib, jack-audio-connection-kit, mad, flac, mikmod, nas, vorbis, libsndfile, gtk+, doyzgen, xosd, and nls.
The only thing I didn't succeed succeed to compile is the ccda input plugin. From configure, I get
Code:
checking linux/cdrom.h usability... no
checking linux/cdrom.h presence... no
checking for linux/cdrom.h... noDo you know what can provide cdrom.h?
EDIT: the title