SALAD

Nice hustle, tons-o-fun! Next time, eat a salad!

SALAD is an OpenAL loader library which is made specifically to avoid any licensing issues caused by OpenAL-soft being licensed under LGPL.

SALAD is named after GLAD just because I thought it would be funny.

Usage

In order to use SALAD you need a working ANSI C compiler with extensions (Visual C/C++ and GNU C extensions are supported so far).

Via copying files

You can just copy files in yours source tree, then add salad.c as a source and append a new directory to the include path.

Via CMake and Git submodules

1. git submodule add https://github.com/undnull/salad.git
2. add_subdirectory(salad)
3. OPTIONAL: set(SALAD_PARANOID OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
4. OPTIONAL: set(SALAD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
5. target_link_libraries(my_engine salad)

Licensing

I wrote all the headers (myself with a bit of help from regular expressions) based on OpenAL-soft ones but using SALAD's header. So the entirety of this repo is licensed under Simplified BSD license (see LICENSE for details).

Abstract examples

Generic C example

#include <AL/al.h>
#include <AL/alc.h>
#include <AL/salad.h>
#include <stddef.h>

int main(void)
{
    if(!saladLoadAL())
        return 1;
    
    ALCdevice *dev = alcOpenDevice(NULL);
    // ....

    return 0;
}

Source SDK

I was writing this in order to implement a better sound system for my Source Engine mod/game so this one is probably reasonable:

#include "AL/al.h"
#include "AL/alc.h"
#include "AL/salad.h"
#include "tier1/interface.h"

static CDllDemandLoader al_dll("OpenAL32");

static void *SALAD_LoadFunc(const char *procname, void *arg)
{
    return al_dll.GetProcAddress(procname);
}

bool InitSomething()
{
    if(!saladLoadALFunc(SALAD_LoadFunc, NULL)) {
        // Crash the game?
        return false;
    }

    ALCdevice *dev = alcOpenDevice(NULL);
    // ...

    return true;
}