Why does this need to be compiled?..

[tbone2k-git]

Why does this need to be compiled?..

[tbone2k-git]

With "just install a package" I don't necessarily mean a distro package, some bundled binaries and config files would be fine as well. I would probably succeed putting them somewhere into the system and "boom!", have it working? I don't know.. o) Why is everyone required to compile this, do the resulting binaries on each distro actually differ? Do they differ for various pulseaudio version? I would assume pulseaudio has an API which could work for a broad spectrum of clients, just like any music player also does not need to be compiled for a specific pulseaudio version.

I am a linux noob, please forgive me for my naive questions, I just try to learn! o)
Thank you in advance! o)

[matt335672]

@tbone2k-git - you need to compile this as pulseaudio doesn't support out-of-tree builds. You need not only a complete pulse audio source tree, but a working configuration too.

This isn't the the case for the pipewire module, which is currently being submitted as a Debian package, although it isn't available yet.

Check your Debian 12 installation isn't using pipewire with the pactl info command. I believe the default for Debian 12 is pipewire.