[Cuis-dev] Libpulse dependency - why does a programming language require a certain audio interface?

[Vanessa Freudenberg]

To answer the question in your title: Smalltalk is not "just a programming
language," it's an authoring environment that happens to include a specific
programming language. But the language is secondary, it's simply part of
the user interface for the actual system, along with other tools. This does
indeed set it apart from most other systems that are purely languages.

That system runs on a virtual machine, the Open Smalltalk VM, which on your
system appears to be configured to use pulse audio by default. The VM is
plugin based and can be configured to use alsa instead. I think the command
line switch is -vm-sound-alsa but I don't have a linux machine in front of
me right now, YMMV.

Vanessa

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:56 AM tuxic via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I followed the steps given by Nicoa Mingotty here:
> https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=ydrqIxAf2II
>
> and when starting Cuis Smalltalk I get this error message:
>
> sqcogspur64linuxht/squeak Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Cuis6.0-5171.image
> vm-sound-pulse tryLoading
> sqcogspur64linuxht/lib/squeak/5.0-202205110711-64bit/vm-sound-pulse.so:
> dlopen: libpulse-simple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory vm-sound-pulse tryLoading
>
> /home/mccramer/CUIS/sqcogspur64linuxht/lib/squeak/5.0-202205110711-64bit/vm-sound-pulse.so:
> dlopen: libpulse-simple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
> I am using alsa as the audio interface of choice.
> How can I make Cuis Smalltalk to use this interface instead of
> pulseaudio?
>
> Cheers!
> Tuxic
>
>
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