openal @1.3 build fails 'CAStreamBasicDescription.h' file not found

[Superlokkus (Markus Klemm)]

I failed to build openal @1.3 with MacPorts 2.5.2 (and also 2.5.0) on my macOS 10.13.5.. Seems a header is missing or wrongly included:

:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_audio_openal/openal/work/openal-1.3/OpenAL-MacOSX/oalOSX.h:32:10: fatal error: 'CAStreamBasicDescription.h' file not found
:info:build #include "CAStreamBasicDescription.h"
:info:build          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Superlokkus (Markus Klemm)]

Error log macporst 2.5.2

[kencu (Ken)]

I have that file as part of CoreAudio on this 10.6.8 system:

$ locate CAStreamBasicDescription.h
/Developer/Extras/CoreAudio/PublicUtility/CAStreamBasicDescription.h

[Superlokkus (Markus Klemm)]

Well I got xcode but neither that header nor a /Developer any more, I guess this is broken due to never version of macOS Replying to kencu:

I have that file as part of CoreAudio on this 10.6.8 system:

$ locate CAStreamBasicDescription.h
/Developer/Extras/CoreAudio/PublicUtility/CAStreamBasicDescription.h

[kencu (Ken)]

I'm not certain about it, but perhaps this <​https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft> might be a current implementation of OpenAL that we might consider updating to. It seems to be fairly active, and it has a cmake build script so it might build...

[kencu (Ken)]

and in fact we have a port

openal-soft @1.15.1_2 (audio, devel)
    cross-platform software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API

that looks to be already moving in that direction. It's a bit out of date (current release is 1.18.2), and perhaps might need to be moved to github, but the bones are there.