Openal tip

[Alienhead]

If your like me, you might not always be distributing your project via an installer. In which case you don't have many options available other than asking the user to manually install OPENAL drivers.

Here's a trick you can do to prevent having to bug the user about those damn OPENAL drivers.

Download the oalinst.exe from the site, put it in your project folder.
Add this snipplet to the top of your Main.lua script.

        -- OAL drivers

 

        stream = FileSystem:ReadFile("openal.installed")

        if stream == nil then

            os.execute('start /min "window title" "oalinst.exe" "-SILENT"') -- openal installs

            FileSystem:CreateFile("openal.installed")

        else

            stream:Release()

        end