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// **** WAVPACK **** //
// Hybrid Lossless Wavefile Compressor //
// Copyright (c) 1998 - 2016 David Bryant. //
// All Rights Reserved. //
// Distributed under the BSD Software License (see license.txt) //
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This package contains all the source code required to build the WavPack
library (libwavpack) and the command-line programs and it has been tested
on many platforms. Assembly language optimizations are provided for x86
and x86-64 (AMD64) processors (encoding and decoding) and ARMv7 (decoding
only). The x86 assembly code includes a runtime check for MMX capability,
so it will work on legacy i386 processors.
On Windows there are solution and project files for Visual Studio 2008 and
additional sourcecode to build the CoolEdit/Audition plugin and the winamp
plugin. The CoolEdit/Audition plugin provides a good example for using the
library to both read and write WavPack files and the winamp plugin makes
extensive use of APEv2 tag reading and writing. Both 32-bit and 64-bit
platforms are provided.
Visual Studio 2008 does not support projects with x64 assembly very well. I
have provided a copy of the edited masm.rules file that works for me, but I
can't provide support if your build does not work. Please make a copy of
your masm.rules file first. On my system it lives here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCProjectDefaults
To build everything on Linux, type:
1. ./configure [--disable-asm] [--enable-man] [--enable-rpath] [--enable-tests]
[--disable-apps] [--disable-dsd] [--enable-legacy]
2. make
3. make install (optionally, to install into /usr/local/bin)
If you are using the code directly from Git (rather than a distribution)
then you will need to do a ./autogen.sh instead of the configure step. If
assembly optimizations are available for your processor they will be
automatically enabled, but if there is a problem with them then use the
--disable-asm option to revert to pure C. For Clang-based build systems
(Darwin, FreeBSD, etc.) Clang version 3.5 or higher is required.
If you get a WARNING about unexpected libwavpack version when you run the
command-line programs, you might try using --enable-rpath to hardcode the
library location in the executables, or simply force static linking with
--disable-shared.
There is now a cli program to do a full suite of stress tests for libwavpack,
and this is particularly useful for packagers to make sure that the assembly
language optimizations are working correctly on various platforms. It is
built with the configure option --enable-tests and requires Pthreads (it
worked out-of-the-box on all the platforms I tried it on). There are lots of
options, but the default test suite (consisting of 192 tests) is executed
with "wvtest --default". There is also a seeking test. On Windows a third-
party Pthreads library is required, so I am not including this in the build
for now.
Notes:
1. There are four documentation files contained in the distribution:
doc/wavpack_doc.html: contains user-targeted documentation for the
command-line programs
doc/WavPack5PortingGuide.pdf: this document is targeted at developers who
are migrating to WavPack 5, and it provides a short
description of the major improvements and how to
utilize them
doc/WavPack5LibraryDoc.pdf: contains a detailed description of the API
provided by WavPack library appropriate for read
and writing WavPack files and manipulating APEv2 tags
doc/WavPack5FileFormat.pdf: contains a description of the WavPack file
format, including details needed for parsing WavPack
blocks and interpreting the block header and flags
There is also a description of the WavPack algorithms in the forth edition
of David Salomon's book "Data Compression: The Complete Reference". The
section on WavPack can be found here:
www.wavpack.com/WavPack.pdf
2. This code is designed to be easy to port to other platforms. It is endian-
agnostic and usually uses callbacks for I/O, although there's a convenience
function for reading files that accepts filename strings and automatically
handles correction files (and on Windows there is now an option to select
UTF-8 instead of ANSI).
To maintain compatibility on various platforms, the following conventions
are used: the "char" type must be 8-bits (signed or unsigned), a "short"
must be 16-bits and the "int" and "long" types must be at least 32-bits.
3. The code's modules are organized in such a way that if major chunks of the
functionality are not referenced (for example, creating WavPack files) then
link-time dependency resolution should provide optimum binary sizes.
However, some functionality could not be easily excluded in this way and so
there are additional macros that may be used to further reduce the size of
the binary. Note that these must be defined for all modules:
NO_SEEKING to not allow seeking to a specific sample index
(for applications that always read entire files)
NO_TAGS to not read specified fields from ID3v1 and APEv2 tags and
not create or edit APEv2 tags
ENABLE_LEGACY include support for Wavpack files from before version 4.0
(this was eliminated by default with WavPack 5)
ENABLE_DSD include support for DSD audio (new for WavPack 5 and the
default, but obviously not universally required)
4. There are alternate versions of this library available specifically designed
for "resource limited" CPUs or hardware encoding and decoding. There is the
"tiny decoder" library which works with less than 32k of code and less than
4k of data and has assembly language optimizations for the ARM and Freescale
ColdFire CPUs. The "tiny encoder" is also designed for embedded use and
handles the pure lossless, lossy, and hybrid lossless modes. Neither of the
"tiny" versions use any memory allocation functions nor do they require
floating-point arithmetic support.
5. Questions or comments should be directed to david@wavpack.com