Play .WAV file?

Hi,
I am writting a C++ application using OpenGL and GLUT. I am working to avoid platform specific references in the code such as Windows. I hope to make this program port over to Linux OS with very little code change.

Are there any Class source code samples for reading a WAV file for the purpose of adding sound effects to a program? A how-to tuturial would be even better so I can learn to do this. MIDI would be the next consideration...or anything else you might recommend that is better.

My 7 year-old thinks the program is pretty cool but he must make up his own sound effects for shooting his laser... :-) He does sound pretty cool himself. ;-)

Regards,
ChuckB

Take a look into SDL. I hear it is a pretty good cross-platform library for a few things.

You also might want to see if FMOD is corss-platform. That is audio only, but I dont know if it goes to linux or not.

Z.

Isn't there something called OpenSL? The sound pendant to OpenGL? I think I've heard of it...

I think it is OpenAL. I have heard of it too, but havent seen it used much.

Z.

I believe UT2003 uses it...at least, the beta I had (;)) used it.

Thanks for the tips. I'll let you know what I find.
Regards,
ChuckB

Success!
I am attaching a simple program. I found a tutorial on using SDL and the SDL_mixer library. After some debugging, I put together a simple console program that starts, plays a 'phaser.wav' file. That's it. I am attaching the Dev-C++ 4.01 project, source and exe along with wav file.

You need SDL_mixer.lib to compile. Check the path in my project linker options to match your system. I think SDL.DLL is required also in system folder.

I did it without having to initialize SDL...which I thought was interesting because I thought this was a requirement.

I will insert this code into my OpenGL project to see if it works well.

Any idea where I can get some free WAV special effects files?

Thanks for the help above.

Regards,
ChuckB