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Using the XactImporter and XactProcessor
The InfinitespaceStudios.Pipeline tooling comes with versions of the XactImporter and XactProcessor. In order to use these you will need to have the XactBld3.exe installed on your machine. This is a tool what ships with the XNA 4.0 Refresh installer. You can get the latest installer from XnaForVS2017
Follow the instructions at FlatRedBall. This will get you setup on Windows and VS2017.
To get this working on Linux you need to install wine. This can be done via your distributions package manager. On Debian based systems
apt-get install wine
once that is done you need to setup wine so it will run
wineboot -i
Now you can install the Xact tooling using the XNA Game Studio Platform Tools.msi from the XnaForVS2017 zip file.
wine msiexec XNA Game Studio Platform Tools.msi /i /quiet /qn /norestart
To get this working on Mac we need to use wine. We can install wine using Homebrew.
brew install wine
We can then setup wine just as we do on Linux based systems.
wineboot -i
Now you can install the Xact tooling using the XNA Game Studio Platform Tools.msi from the XnaForVS2017 zip file.
wine msiexec XNA\ Game\ Studio\ Platform\ Tools.msi /i /quiet /qn /norestart
Now that we have XactBld3.exe setup we can start processing XACT output. The XACT IDE itself can be used to generate the .xap files which contain your audio. This program runs on Windows.
Once you have your .xap file you can add this to your Content.mcgb via the Pipeline Tools (or manually). Set the Importer to use XapImporter and Processor to XapProcessor then compile your content as normal. If the setup was done correctly you should see files like SoundBank.xsb and WaveBank.xwb appear in the appropriate directory in your Content folder.