Linux Mint 19.3 with HashLink 1.11 (cmake) - Failed to load library openal.hdll

[tommy3]

Hello,

I'm new to Haxe and HashLink so maybe I'm doing something completely wrong.

I've downloaded linux binaries haxe-4.0.5 and built hashlink-1.11 from source and tried the example on hello-hashlink. Starting my hello.hl via hl it reports this error:

/.../Downloads/hashlink-1.11/src/module.c(352) : FATAL ERROR : Failed to load library openal.hdll

There are several hdll-files inside my installation directory:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137856 Apr 16 05:55 fmt.hdll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105272 Apr 16 05:55 sdl.hdll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963376 Apr 16 05:55 sqlite.hdll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13096 Apr 16 05:55 ui.hdll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18800 Apr 16 05:55 uv.hdll

but openal.hdll seems to be missing. I took a look into hashlink-1.11/libs/CMakeLists.txt and it seems to me, that openal.hdll will only build for WIN32!?

My install directory for HL is a non-standard path and I but it into LD_LIBRARY_PATH, maybe that's a problem, but anyway openal.hdll doesn't exists.

I found a few closed issues according problems with openal.hdll but they are always windows specific. Perhaps I've missed something important?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[tommy3]

I just found out, that build instruction says to use included Makefile not cmake. I chose cmake intuitively. 😖

At the end I just modified PREFIX in Makefile to my needs and did make && make install and it worked!

Now I wonder why the cmake way doesn't work. Is it just work-in-progress and experimental or did I get something wrong?

[ncannasse]

You need OpenAL32.dll to be able to use openal. These can be downloaded using openal-soft distribution.