Unreal AmigaOs4.1

Hi,

I got Unreal Engine 1 running on my X5000 (fgsfdsfgs/UE1 sources, cross-compiled with GCC 13.4.0 via walkero's Docker toolchain). It renders, it's playable, and it exits cleanly. Took a lot of debugging to get here.
The last problem is sound. When I enable audio (UseSound=True, NOpenALDrv), the window opens and then the whole system freezes — 100% CPU, no crash log, have to reboot. With sound off, everything works fine.
I'm using OpenAL-Soft 1.23.1 with the SDL2 backend, linked against the SDK's SDL2. Just before the freeze I get:
[ALSOFT] Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead
[ALSOFT] No capture backend available!
I already ruled out my own threading code (custom sem_t and gthread stubs for GCC 13) — a standalone sem_wait/sem_post stress test runs fine on the real machine.
I think it's the SDL2 audio backend on AmigaOS4. Questions:

Has anyone had a similar freeze with OpenAL-Soft's SDL2 backend?
Would building OpenAL-Soft against a native AHI backend instead of SDL2 be the better way?
The MorphOS port by BeWorld/BSzili uses the same OpenAL+SDL2 setup and mentions an early "audio bug" fix — does anyone know if that applies to AmigaOS4 or was it MorphOS-only?

Thanks for any help.

@Maijestro
OpenAL surely works (i use it in many projects), but just what you can try firstly is:

At first, be sure you use static build of whole exe, i.e. when you do "ppc-amigaos-readelf -d yourfile.exe", you have "no dynamic" listed. That by itself can solve lots of issues

Also, use this version: https://os4depot.net/share/development ... ary/audio/openal-soft.lha . This one from Salas00, and his ports always of high-quality (and i use exactly this version always).

ps. And don't forget to have stack cookie of 2mb, i always use it for any more or less "big" projects, just to never worry about possible stack issues which can cause all sort of weird issues too.

@Maijestro

Wow, good work.

I'm looking forward to playing that myself, compared to
Doom3 it seems to run very well.

I do have a retro PC with a Voodoo 5 5500 though, which I'm currently playing the game on

Nice icons by the way you have in desktop

@Maijestro

Amazing work! Thank you for this.

@Maijestro

We had a similar problem with Woof (Doom Port)
https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/woof/issues/1285