Hypersonik is a reimplementation of DirectSound built on top of WASAPI, built with low-latency use cases in mind. This is currently very early alpha software which is missing large chunks of functionality. Patches welcome.

This project uses the Meson build system, which in turn uses ninja to drive the compilation process (usually). If you are familiar with Autotools, then the commands meson and ninja act as the rough equivalents of the ./configure and make commands from the procedure for compiling Autotools software packages.

To build this project on Windows, you will first need to install a recent version of MSYS2 and fully update it in accordance with the MSYS2 documentation. Once the base MSYS2 system is installed and fully updated, install the following packages inside the MSYS2 environment:

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-meson mingw-w64-i686-toolchain

On Linux development hosts, you will need to install suitable equivalents using your package manager. The w64-mingw32 cross-compilation toolchain is required.

Once you have installed the necessary packages on your development platform, a debug build can be compiled as follows (omit --cross w64-mingw32.txt if compiling on MSYS2)

$ meson debug --cross w64-mingw32.txt
$ cd debug
$ ninja

A directory name other than debug can be passed to meson if desired.

Alternatively, to make a release build:

$ meson release --buildtype release --cross w64-mingw32.txt
$ cd release
$ ninja

A src/dsound.dll binary will be produced inside the respective build directory.

This project is released under the terms of the MIT License.