What's shout?

[johnfn]

Today there was mass pandemonium in #thasauce because partybot was gone and no one could remember how to do a sync listen (lol). I tried to hook up partybot but got stuck because I couldn't import shout.

What's shout? Google didn't give me anything.

I think the usual way of documenting required libs is with a requirements.txt file, e.g. http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requirements.html

[MisaelK]

I think you should at least upload the libraries somewhere, so we can play with it.

[blastron]

I need to migrate p-bot over to a new server anyway, so I will assemble some installation instructions as I go through them myself.

[MisaelK]

Ok, after some searching around, both pylibshout and python-shout can be used as the shout library. Both are available through pip.

Unfortunately, none works on Windows, even after extensive research and tinkering. I got as far as ld returning "bad reloc address" (both in pylibshout.o as in shout.o). Probably a version mismatch somewhere.

[MisaelK]

Huge success! I did it!

Super longest story short, I had to compile libogg, libvorbis and libshout with my MinGW toolchain, and editing some .h files, as well as the setup.py that comes with python-shout.

Some notes:

• MinGW and MSYS should be first in your path.
• You need to compile python-shout with -lws2_32 after everything else.
• When compiling libogg, libvorbis and libshout, do so in that order. You'll need to be in a sh environment before compiling, to run the configure executable.
• When running ./configure, specify your MinGW folder with --prefix=C:/MinGW, and also pass --disable-shared to libvorbis (or it won't compile).
• If you're getting type errors (or a "can't find <_G_config.h>" error) check that you're using the correct version of os.h, or edit it manually.