PortAudio binaries

This repository provides pre-compiled dynamic libraries for PortAudio.

DLLs for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)

The DLLs include all available host APIs, namely WMME, DirectSound, WDM/KS, WASAPI and ASIO. For more informaton about the ASIO SDK see http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/developers.html.

The DLLs were created on a Debian GNU/Linux system using MXE (this version from PR #2631, using pa_stable_v190700_20210406.tgz) with the following commands (after installing the dependencies):

git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git
cd mxe
git fetch origin pull/2631/head:pa-19.7.0
git checkout pa-19.7.0
cd ..
wget http://www.steinberg.net/sdk_downloads/asiosdk2.3.zip
export PATH=$(pwd)"/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH"

Open the file mxe/src/portaudio.mk and change --with-winapi=wmme,directx,wdmks,wasapi to --with-winapi=wmme,directx,wdmks,wasapi,asio (and make sure to keep the backslash at the end of the line). To the first line starting with "$(MAKE)", append " EXAMPLES= SELFTESTS=" (without the quotes). Delete the 4 lines before the last line (i.e. keep the line with "endef"). After saving your changes, please continue:

for TARGET in x86_64-w64-mingw32.static i686-w64-mingw32.static
do
    unzip asiosdk2.3.zip
    # You'll need write access in /usr/local for this:
    mv ASIOSDK2.3 /usr/local/asiosdk2
    # If it doesn't work, prepend "sudo " to the previous command
    make -C mxe portaudio MXE_TARGETS=$TARGET
    $TARGET-gcc -O2 -shared -o libportaudio-$TARGET.dll -Wl,--whole-archive -lportaudio -Wl,--no-whole-archive -lstdc++ -lwinmm -lole32 -lsetupapi
    $TARGET-strip libportaudio-$TARGET.dll
    chmod -x libportaudio-$TARGET.dll
    # again, you'll probably have to use "sudo":
    rm -r /usr/local/asiosdk2
done

mv libportaudio-x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.dll libportaudio64bit.dll
mv libportaudio-i686-w64-mingw32.static.dll libportaudio32bit.dll

A different set of DLLs (compiled with Visual Studio) is available at https://github.com/adfernandes/precompiled-portaudio-windows.

dylib for Mac OS X (64-bit)

The dylib was created on a Mac OS X system using XCode. The XCode CLI tools were installed with:

xcode-select --install

The following commands were used for compilation:

curl -O http://files.portaudio.com/archives/pa_stable_v190700_20210406.tgz
tar xvf pa_stable_v190700_20210406.tgz
cd portaudio
# in configure: replace "-Werror" (just search for it) with "-DNDEBUG"
./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
make
cd ..
cp portaudio/lib/.libs/libportaudio.2.dylib libportaudio.dylib

Copyright

• PortAudio by Ross Bencina and Phil Burk, MIT License.

• Steinberg Audio Stream I/O API by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.