configure can't find libasound

[wbendick]

checking required libasound headers version... 0.9.0
checking for libasound headers version >= 0.9.0 (0.9.0)... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.

will@teramind:~/seq66$ sudo apt install libasound2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libasound2 is already the newest version (1.2.6.1-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

[ahlstromcj]

I notice on my Debian Sid (unstable) dev system that libasound is already installed, but there is also another package, libasound2. When I try to install it, apt recommends leaving it uninstalled. You can try to install libasound if you want, but it might complain, and removing libasound2 might break things. It looks like I will need to do some investigation of this issue, see if there's an m4 file for it, and figure out how to fall back to libasound if libasound2 is not present. Might take awhile.

[ahlstromcj]

On second thought, see if there is a libasound2-dev package and install that, and see if the works. Let me know if it fixes things, and I can update the INSTALL file.

[ahlstromcj]

Have you installed libsound-dev or libasound2-dev? What happened? I'm still not sure if one can pull out libasound and install libasound2 seamlessy (on Debian Sid). It looks like Arch Linux (my other system) doesn't provide libasound2. Continuing ....

[MQS-mark]

Had the same issue under Ubuntu 24.04.

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev fixed this. I already had libasound2t64 installed before, thus one needs the dev package/library too.

Same goes for libatopology2t64 and libatopology-dev.