[vorbis-dev] Vorbize.c

[kcarnold at yahoo.com]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:07:54PM +1000, Michael Smith wrote:
> At 11:23 AM 8/28/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >Are there any attempts currently being worked on to make Vorbize Visual C++
> >compatable? Or for that matter non-GNU compatiable?
> >
> >I guess I never realized that getopt.h was a GNU thing. What would be the
> >suggested course of action to get vorbize to cross compile on VC++ or other
> >non-GNU platforms?
> >
> >If not I can certainly do this because I'd like to be able to run this on
> >Windows but I didn't want to step on anyone's toes...
> 
> At some point I hacked up a version of vorbize so that it would work on
> windows. I might still have it, if you really want it. It's just a matter
> of ripping out all the unix-specific bits, changing a few minor other
> things, and finding and compiling getopt (which is in cvs now, actually).
> Gets to be a real mess, but it worked.
> 
> I suggest that you just use oggenc, which does more than vorbize, and is
> portable (and already ported to win32, using VC++). I'm biased, but still...

Consider Vorbize dead. It was a quick hack anyway; oggenc can handle having
lots more c**p thrown at it (e.g., odd-ball WAV files, switched-endian
processors...). I'll remove it from the CVS if no one has any objections.

Kenneth (Vorbize author, btw)

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