How to install OpenAL on Ubuntu with Netbeans? - C++

Question

I have the Netbeans IDE installed on my Ubuntu machine. I have the libopenal-dev installed trough the console and I can confirm the header files are in place.

How do I configure Netbeans to build a program with OpenAL? Like do I need to set extra Linker Libraries (which I would expect) and where would those be located?

Answer 1

Its always informative to start off with a new library like openal by compiling manually at the command line. Here is a simple example :

g++ -o play_openal play_openal.cpp -lopenal

Notice the mention of -lopenal to pull in the openal library.
In your IDE add :

openal  

to list of Linker Libraries.