E_Exit: Can't init SDL Audio target 'pulseaudio' not available about dosbox-x HOT 4 CLOSED

DOSBox-X is using your existing SDL2. But it would appear that this SDL2 build was compiled without sound support, which would explain why only dummy works.

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Built the latest code on ArchLinux and pulseaudio is working fine, with and without setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER.
I used build-sdl2 script.

% src/dosbox-x                                                   (git)-[master]
LOG: Early LOG Init complete
LOG: DOSBox-X's working directory: /home/maron/dosbox-x-1
LOG: Logging init: beginning logging proper. This is the end of the early init logging
LOG: Logging: No logfile was given. All further logging will be discarded.
LOG: DOSBox-X version 2023.10.06 Commit 59744fe (Linux SDL2 64-bit)
LOG: SDL: version 2.30.0, Video x11, Audio pulseaudio

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Ok, whenever I will have time, I would compile SDL2 myself and check the result. I will document the results here. Thanks for the answers!

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I gave a try with build-debug (with the included SDL source) and it works:

gopher@titan:~/Projects/dosbox-x$
sudo apt install mesa-common-dev libglfw3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev
./build-debug
cd src
./dosbox-x

Maybe some of the packages not needed, and maybe I missing some that I installed earlier.

For having MIDI installed a soundfont:

sudo apt install fluid-soundfont-gm

Then I configured it:

The path for the soundfont on Debian 12 in default is /usr/share/sounds/sf3/default-GM.sf3

I had a crackling sound whenever a digital sound was played, for fixing it I set the CPU cycles to 486 100Mhz + fix 60 fps, and now everything works perfectly.

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