How to get hold of OpenAL for Windows?

[provocativeshrubbery]

First off, this is my first post so hi everyone. Thanks for your work on this project. I love the regular updates.

I'm trying to compile OpenMW from source on Windows 8.1 with VS 2010. I'm following the Development Environment Setup guide and despite some minor hiccups that seems to have gone well so far. I am however unable to obtain a copy of OpenAL. The link from the guide is dead (and has been for over a year) and a couple quick web searches didn't get me anywhere either.

Any suggestions?

[Chris]

Here's a backup of the SDK and redist installer:
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/misc-downloads/

[provocativeshrubbery]

Thanks a bunch. I'm compiling now. Hope it works.

[pvdk]

Chris, can we use your OpenAL Soft on Windows instead?

In the mean time, I have updated the wiki to use the link you posted.

[Chris]

Yep, you can. I'd recommend making a build of a recent Git version though, since there was a race condition in the mmdevapi backend that could cause some systems to intermittently fail to open a device (a work around could be made in openmw for it, but it would be kind of ugly; basically, sleep for about 10 to 20 ms after enumerating and before trying to open the audio device).