Sox

This is the Sox sound 'swiss army knife' app for the ARM platform. Tested on Zaurus, hx4700 Linux and should also work on the GP2X or any other Linux ARM platform with a /dev/dsp-like sound device.

On 27-Nov-06, I recompiled Sox for the SL5500 Zaurus, which has a StrongARM CPU (SL-C860 has an XScale). I added support for mp3 encoding and decoding. The SL5500 binaries will run on the SL5500 or SL-C860; the SL-C860 version will not run on the SL5500.

The rather long configure commandline that I used to compile the SL5500 Sox:

./configure
  --prefix=${PWD}/../installed \
  --host=armv5tel-cacko-linux \
  CFLAGS="-march=armv4 -mtune=xscale" \
  LDFLAGS="-L${PWD}/lame-3.97/libmp3lame/.libs -L${PWD}/libmad-0.15.1b/.libs" \
  CPPFLAGS="-I${PWD}/libmad-0.15.1b -I${PWD}"

The non-SL5500 Sox differs in that I didn't specify -march=armv4 or -mtune=xscale, so the compiler defaulted to armv5tel. I'd symlinked 'lame-3.97' to a previously-compiled version of LAME, and 'libmad-0.15.1b' to the libmad source dir. I had to mess around with this a bit to get the Sox configure script to see the libs and includes.

I should maybe mention that although I used the Cacko compiler (from pdaXrom), my SL5500 is running OpenZaurus and my SL-C860 runs Cacko-Qt. 'Cacko' was originally pdaXrom, I think.

Supported file formats for the non-SL5500 sox (12.18.1):
aiff al au auto avr cdr cvs dat vms gsm hcom la lu maud nul ossdsp prc raw sb sf sl smp sndt sph 8svx sw txw ub ul uw voc vox wav wve

Supported file formats for SL5500 sox (12.18.1) are the same as above, with the addition of 'mp3'.

Files:

sox-arm-12.18.1.tar.gz           Tarball of binaries
sox-sl5500-installed.tar.gz      Sox (and libs) for the SL5500
config.log                       ARM cross-compiler config log (non-SL5500 Sox).
monkey.au                        Test sample provided with Sox package
monkey.wav                       Another test sample
sox-12.18.1.tar.gz               Original source code

md5sums:

19e67d194baafeaa42bbe76bf8fb3bf4  config.log
9e79db22de27309366b0ae898106be90  monkey.au
66bf7b57ae498ca36728b26a35904b03  monkey.wav
b12507493d3c8571fa8b6e70a01d5438  sox-12.18.1.tar.gz
df36685e7b0c79460a31e798030d2e4f  sox-arm-12.18.1.tar.gz
e86dfc95531d7088df0da925c2ed5c80  sox-sl5500-installed.tar.gz

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