Win95 program to play audio file

Win95 program to play audio file

[Bhaskar Bhattacharya]

Hello:

I just tried to compile an example program from the Charles Petzold
book on programming Windows 95. It contains a function call

     PlaySound ("hellowin.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC) ;

I coudn't find a header file for this function. I get the error message

gcc -c -Wall -Ic:/Cygnus/b19/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/include
hellowin.c
hellowin.c: In function `WndProc':
hellowin.c:65: warning: implicit declaration of function `PlaySound'
hellowin.c:65: `SND_FILENAME' undeclared (first use this function)
hellowin.c:65: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
hellowin.c:65: for each function it appears in.)
hellowin.c:65: `SND_ASYNC' undeclared (first use this function)
MAKE.EXE: *** [hellowin.o] Error 1

Has anybody compiled a program involving playing sound files ? If yes,
would someone please share a code fragment with me ?

thanks,

Bhaskar Bhattacharya
PS. The program compiles (and runs) fine if that line is commented out.
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Re: Win95 program to play audio file

[Bhaskar Bhattacharya]

Thanks a lot for all the help in solving the problem. It compiled
smoothly with the mmsystem.h file sent to me by Hilton Fernandes.
I have now got a little hint of how to proceed in such situations,
and learnt a few things.

Bhaskar
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Re: Win95 program to play audio file

[Bhaskar Bhattacharya]

OK, I tried including mmsystems.h but got a whole lot of syntax errors
in preprocessing. The keywords NEAR and FAR caused problems and when I
removed all references to them in the header file, other typedefs like
WINMAPI started problems. I am quite frustrated trying to figure out
which header files I need for a successful compile.

thanks,

Bhaskar

Robin Crampton wrote:
> 
> You need to include mmsystem.h.  It doesn't come with Cygwin32.
> Link with libwinmm.a.
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RE: Win95 program to play audio file

[Robin Crampton]

You need to include mmsystem.h.  It doesn't come with Cygwin32.
Link with libwinmm.a.  

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