make sounds (beep) with c++

Question

How to make the hardware beep sound with c++?

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Answer 1

There are a few OS-specific routines for beeping.

• On a Unix-like OS, try the (n)curses beep() function. This is likely to be more portable than writing '\a' as others have suggested, although for most terminal emulators that will probably work.

• In some *BSDs there is a PC speaker device. Reading the driver source, the SPKRTONE ioctl seems to correspond to the raw hardware interface, but there also seems to be a high-level language built around write()-ing strings to the driver, described in the manpage.

• It looks like Linux has a similar driver (see this article for example; there is also some example code on this page if you scroll down a bit.).

• In Windows there is a function called Beep().