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Requirements

• POSIX or Win32 system
• liboil
• libsamplerate
• libsndfile (>= 1.0.18)
• libatomic_ops 1.2 or newer (1.1 and older do not work in all situations, and result in inline assembly compilation failures when compiling PulseAudio) Download v1.2 from libatomic_ops-1.2.tar.gz
• libspeexdsp Required as of 0.9.11
• libgdbm Required as of 0.9.11
• X11 (optional)
• libcap (optional)
• alsa-lib (optional) (alsa-lib 1.0.17 or later required for ALSA support with PulseAudio 0.9.11 or later. PulseAudio will still build if your ALSA is older, but it will not have ALSA support enabled.)
• glib 2.0 (optional)
• Avahi (optional)
• jack (optional)
• libasyncns (optional)
• tcpwrap (optional)
• lirc (optional)
• libhal (optional as of 0.9.11)
• policykit (a.k.a libpolkit; optional as of 0.9.11)
• BlueZ-libs (a.k.a. libbluetooth; optional as of 0.9.11)
• libtool (PulseAudio versions <= 0.9.14 require libtool 1.x built with ltdl support. From 0.9.15 onwards, libtool 2.x will be required.)
• GConf 2.0 (optional as of 0.9.12)
• DBus-GLib 0.7.x (optional)

Can't find the dependencies on your distribution? Check out the DependenciesListDistroSpecific page.

Source code

Download PulseAudio 0.9.15 now!

(Be sure to check known incompatibilities before compiling, though.)

Binaries

Microsoft Windows binaries can be downloaded from Cendio. Note that these are for 0.9.6, dated November 2007. They work, as long as you use one soundcard only, apparently.

Development Sources

You may check out the current development sources of PulseAudio with GIT:

git clone git://0pointer.de/pulseaudio.git

If you have trouble connecting (firewalls and such), try with the slower HTTP protocol:

git clone http://git.0pointer.de/repos/pulseaudio.git/

You may browse the repository online with gitweb.