[flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 103, Issue 11

Marcus Johnson bumblebritches57 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 18:22:08 PDT 2013


I posted Mac binaries a few weeks ago but nobody did anything with them, or
even acknowledged them.

Here is a DMG with a .pkg installer for Flac 1.3.0

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52358991/FLACInstaller1.3.0.dmg


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, <flac-dev-request at xiph.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Sourceforge website redirecting (Olav Sunde)
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> From: Olav Sunde <ogs at olavsunde.net>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:11:24 +0200
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Sourceforge website redirecting
>  At 09:06 26.06.2013, you wrote:
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> Olav Sunde wrote:
>
> > I just followed the redirect Ralph Giles posted about above. That works
> > as expected, but on https://xiph.org/flac/download.html the Windows
> > link point to this page:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/files/flac-win/
> > with only old compiles.
>
> Thats correct. Xiph is responsible for the FLAC source code. Xiph does
> not provide binaries for Linux, Windows or Mac.
>
>
> I'd say that is rather strange when it comes to Windows and Mac. The flac
> pages at Sourceforge always had links to binaries. For Linux, many will
> compile from source. I never compile anything, be it Linux or Windows. I
> know a few that compile on Linux of course, but none on Windows or Mac.
> Source code is still quite esoteric for many.
>
>
> Xiph assumes that people on Linux are getting FLAC via their Linux
> distribution or are compiling it from soruce code themselves.
>
> If someone has a link to Windows or Mac binaries for the latest release,
> please let us know and we will update the download page. We may even
> be willing to host the binaries on the Xiph web site.
>
>
> I hope this can be arranged. John Edwards has posted on this early in
> June. I use the Windows binaries from rarewares.org.
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>
> Hope this clears things up.
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> Cheers,
> Erik
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> From: Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1 at gmail.com>
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:13:05 +0200
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Sourceforge website redirecting
>  On 26-06-13 09:06, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> If someone has a link to Windows or Mac binaries for the latest release,
> please let us know and we will update the download page. We may even be
> willing to host the binaries on the Xiph web site. Hope this clears things
> up.
>
>
> There are already quite a lot of binaries out there. I've extensively
> checked (running make fullcheck in the minGW environment) and tested the
> following package, because it is bundled with the new FLAC frontend
> package. I've had no complaints so far. A direct link is probably not a
> good idea however.
>
> http://www.icer.nl/misc_stuff/flac-1.3.0-final-MSVC.zip
>
>
> Janne Hyvärinen has a compile here as well.
>
> http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/temp/flac-1.3.0-win32.zip
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>
> Beside that there's a whole bunch of different compiles with for example
> the Intel compiler and minGW here:
> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=101082
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>
> But that's all Windows, I haven't seen any Mac binaries yet.
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