Distributing OpenAL application

[Joel Trunick]

How do I go about distributing OpenAL with an application? Can I just
include a .dll/.so, or does the user have to install something on their
system?

If I include it, how large is the OpenAL distributable?

J

[Chris Robinson]

Post by Joel Trunick
How do I go about distributing OpenAL with an application? Can I just
include a .dll/.so, or does the user have to install something on their
system?
If I include it, how large is the OpenAL distributable?

You only need to include the appropriate DLL/so files, you don't need to
install anything to the user's system if you don't want. The size
depends on which OpenAL implementation you're using:

Creative's DLLs are a touch under 350KB (the OpenAL32.dll router is
84KB, while the actual wrap_oal.dll driver is 256KB).

OpenAL Soft's Release-build DLL/so is a bit over 400KB (this can vary a
little bit depending on what backends are enabled).

Hope that helps. :)