Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanil...@gmail.com> (02/12/2009):
> VMPK can't be used or compiled in *BSD, because VMPK only supports
> MIDI implementations included in RtMIDI, and RtMIDI doesn't support
> OSS MIDI (and OSS MIDI sequencer was dropped from OSSv4,
> anyway). See: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/#linux "A
> decision was made to not include support for the OSS API because the
> OSS API provides such limited functionality".
> 
> The "libsalsa" library is not an alternative for ALSA sequencer
> based software. The fact is that libsalsa can't be always used as a
> replacement of libasound2. Only very basic ALSA functionality is
> emulated by it.

Many thanks for the detailed answer.

Mehdi, will you request vmpk's addition to p-a-s (excluding it for
non-Linux architectures) or should I? I have a clone of the git
repository, so I can do that if you like.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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