Where or what are the instructions for installing FMOD Ex for Linux to use in g++?

Question

This isn't really a programming question per se, but it is related. I'm looking for the instructions on how to install FMOD.

I want to do extra credit for my computer graphics assignment - sound effects. A teammate wants me to go with something simple, and he suggested that I use FMOD Ex. (If you guys can think of something better, do suggest it, but so far FMOD looks more promising compared to SDL, OpenAL, etc.)

Right now I'm having a really hard time finding the instructions for installing the latest version of FMOD (audio content creation tool) on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32-bit) so that I can use it in g++ with OpenGL. I checked out this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGxNkiAS9g, but it's for Windows. Then, there is a Ubuntu Forums thread which redirected me to this page: https://wiki.debian.org/FMOD, and it has some dated instructions. I've downloaded FMOD Ex v. 4.44.24, which I believe is the latest version. Now I'm looking at eight libraries: libfmodex.so, libfmodex64.so, libfmodex64-4.44.24.so, libfmodex-4.44.24.so, libfmodexL.so, libfmodexL64.so, libfmodexL64-4.44.24.so, libfmodexL-4.44.24.so ... not knowing what to do. I've looked everywhere I could think of: here, YouTube, Google, Ubuntu forums, ... and came up with zilch. I can't think of any other place to ask this question.

If you do know how to install FMOD off the top of your head, drop me a line.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Copy the .so files in /usr/local/lib/, the header files in /usr/local/include/fmodex/, and you're good to go.