[Pkg-vala-maintainers] Bug#658761: /usr/share/vala-0.12/vapi/sdl.vapi is severely broken when it comes to audio playback

[Alexander Kurtz]

Package: valac-0.12
Version: 0.12.1-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

Vala's SDL bindings are severely broken when it comes to audio playback.
The official documentation[0] says that you need to create a
SDL_AudioSpec and then pass that to SDL_OpenAudio() in order to
establish an audio output. However, this fails at the first step:

	$ cat Test.vala 
	public static void main(){
		var foo = new SDL.AudioSpec();
	}
	$ valac-0.12 --pkg=sdl Test.vala 
	Test.vala:2.12-2.30: error: `SDL.AudioSpec' does not have a default constructor
		var foo = new SDL.AudioSpec();
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
	$

Since you can't create an SDL_AudioSpec, you can't use SDL for audio
output from Vala programs at all.

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[0] http://www.libsdl.org/intro.en/usingsound.html
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