[alsa-devel] How to cont the sound cards?

Hi,

I am trying to develop an application using the ALSA library. I read in a book about the snd_cards function, but it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere. (The book is rather old, though, it talks about the 0.5.x series).

The compiler doesn't complain, but the linker gives me an "undefined reference to `snd_cards'" error. I assume this function is deprecated, but what can I use instead?

Cosmin