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Welcome to the PortAudio Wiki

PortAudio is a portable API for audio I/O. It allows people writing audio programs to easily access the audio devices.

To download PortAudio or for more information visit http://www.portaudio.com

This is our Wiki. We use it to share information about development and use of PortAudio. You're welcome to contribute. If you'd like access, please ask on the mailing list.

Links for everyone

• Links to PortAudio content outside the Wiki

• Using the PortAudio Git Repository

• Tutorial (now hosted in the main documentation) <== How to compile and call PortAudio

• Building PortAudio with MinGW

• Platform Specific Notes, eg. Mac OSX, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Board

• Useful Tips on real-time audio programming with PortAudio

• ReleaseNotes

• List of changes between pa_stable_v19_20071207 to pa_stable_v19_20110326 stable snapshots

• People Who Contributed to V19, also see http://www.portaudio.com/people.html

Links mainly for PortAudio developers

• V19ReleasePlan

• Tasks for New and Casual Contributors -- please help out

• Information about our development process: TicketsLabelsAndMilestones and AboutListReviewTickets

• DeveloperGuidelines for using Tickets, SVN and Doxygen

• Test Plan and Test Status - Unit Tests and QA Strategy

• Win32 Audio Background Information

• V19 Sample Data Converters Status

• Changes to the public API for V19-M1 and V19-M2 development milestones

• Guidelines for implementing PortAudio buffering, latency and timing

If you're interested in contributing to the Wiki, the following pages have been suggested:

• Link exchange page
• A v18 vs v19 page