FPC on Linux has no beep facility
Original Reporter info from Mantis: MarkMLl @MarkMLl
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Reporter name: Mark Morgan Lloyd
Original Reporter info from Mantis: MarkMLl @MarkMLl
- Reporter name: Mark Morgan Lloyd
Description:
While the standard Windows API includes an entry point to make a simple noise, such a thing does not exist for Linux or the standard widgetsets. However ALSA is widely installed and generally speaking can be used to beep either from a character mode or GUI (Lazarus/LCL) program.
This might be subject to having an additional distro-level package such as asoundlib-dev installed in order to set up a symlink, but this type of problem has also afflicted database libraries for a long time.
Additional information:
Please consider incorporating the dynamic-linking library and the simpler waveform generator from the .zip attached into the RTL for Linux. Tested on x86_64, believed OK for x86, probably others.
Mantis conversion info:
- Mantis ID: 37997
- OS: Linux
- OS Build: All
- Platform: All
- Version: 3.2.1