Get on Chocolatey (or fix vcpkg)

[Bengt]

I am following the advice of GitHub to use chocolatey for installing portaudio in continuous integration:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/customizing-github-hosted-runners

Currently, portaudio package is not available on Chocolatey:

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=portaudio

For easy installation, portaudio should be pre-built in Chocolatey's repository and thus installable like so:

choco install portaudio

[Be-ing]

PortAudio doesn't do binary releases, or at least it hasn't before. You may consider using vcpkg to build PortAudio from source. I see from the mentioned PR you are using GitHub Actions. vcpkg is already installed in the GitHub Actions VMs. Take a look at the libkeyfinder GitHub Actions workflow file for an example how to use vcpkg with GitHub Actions.

[Bengt]

Thanks for the information. Also thanks for the hint to use vcpkg. - I am still new to GitHub actions and their VMs. Unfortunately, installing PortAudio via vcpkg does not work, either: microsoft/vcpkg#18008

[Be-ing]

I don't know why that is not working. The upstream vcpkg portaudio package builds fine for me locally on Linux. You may consider using the vcpkg port I wrote for Mixxx using #461. That allows building with ASIO support by using the asio feature flag, for example vcpkg install portaudio[asio].

[Bengt]

Thanks for the hint. The asio feature is however not in the package version in vcpkg's package index, which means I cannot install it just like that:

Run vcpkg update
Using local portfile versions. To update the local portfiles, use `git pull`.
No packages need updating.
Computing installation plan...
Package portaudio does not have a asio feature

Sources:

https://github.com/DFKI-Interactive-Machine-Learning/multisensor-pipeline/pull/46/checks?check_run_id=2639564102
https://github.com/DFKI-Interactive-Machine-Learning/multisensor-pipeline/pull/46/checks?check_run_id=2639564249
https://github.com/DFKI-Interactive-Machine-Learning/multisensor-pipeline/pull/46/checks?check_run_id=2639564201
https://github.com/DFKI-Interactive-Machine-Learning/multisensor-pipeline/pull/46/checks?check_run_id=2639564160

Since I am doing this for a production project, I would rather use the upstream vcpkg. As someone who knows how to write one, could you maybe check the upstream port of PortAudio? When comparing it to your port, I see quite some differences. However, I do not know if they have any significance:

https://github.com/mixxxdj/vcpkg/tree/2.3/overlay/ports/portaudio
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/tree/master/ports/portaudio

[Be-ing]

I cannot upstream that vcpkg port until #461 is merged and released. The upstream vcpkg port currently has a some hacks around the unconventional ways PortAudio's CMake build system currently works. #461 fixes that.

[RossBencina]

@Be-ing #461 is now merged, what is the status please? If there's still work to do for vcpkg, please make a new ticket to track progress.

[RossBencina]

Thanks for the idea but we don't do packages. We're not going to do Chocolatey ourselves, but someone else could do it. Seems like vcpkg is the available solution though.