Elysian Shadows

I am looking to start learning opengl soon and I know that there is no sound in that library. I have been told that in order to get sound you need to use a separate program like openal. When I looked at openal i found out that you need to have the redistributable pack on a computer that you want to install a game on. Are there any other libraries that would be able to run sound with opengl or is their an easy way to get the redistributable on someones computer with the program besides having them download it themselves. Oh and should i learn SDL before opengl.

sdl I do believe.... It can do sound and input stuff I think that's what most people do....

OpenAL is a seperate library that mirrors OpenGL's design, and its pretty complicated. Since your starting out I'd recommend SDL_mixer.

EDIT: beat me to it

Yes, you should learn SDL before OpenGL, if you ask me.

I agree with everyone else, and SDL is great for sound (so I've heard).

So does anyone know a good book to start learning sdl

focus on sdl is a good book.

I think you'd be better off using SDL for everything; SDL actually has an openGL wrapper, which means you can use openGL from inside SDL.

To get started, I highly recommend reading from http://lazyfoo.net/

When you start to get to grips with it, just use the SDL documentation and play around.

Have fun ;D

Have a look at the links on this page from gamedev.net:

Simple DirectMedia Layer

Ernest Pazera is the author of Focus on SDL, and he has two articles at the bottom of the page.