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diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION/BUILD b/DOCUMENTATION/BUILD new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..010e097e74 --- /dev/null +++ b/DOCUMENTATION/BUILD @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ + HOW TO BUILD ARDOUR FROM SOURCE + ------------------------------- + +Please: before you do anything else, take a moment to go and join the +ardour-dev mailing list (members only). It is very important that the +community of people using, testing and developing this software are on +the list, and I will NOT deal with questions relating to Ardour's +compilation or bugs that are not sent to that list. See +http://ardour.org/ for details on joining the mailing list. + +You can also get in touch with developers and users on IRC. Joining +#ardour at irc.freenode.net. The core developers and several key users +hang out here on IRC, at pretty much any hour of the night or day. + +*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* + + Full information on building Ardour can be found at: + + http://ardour.org/building.php + + Information has been left in this file for those who do not have + network access but is not guaranteed to be accurate or up to date. + +*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* + + +COMPILING +------------ + +Please ensure that before attempting to compile Ardour, you have +installed: + +* Tools: + + gcc/g++ 3.x or above + scons 0.96 or above + gettext 0.12.1 or above + pkgconfig 0.8.0 or above + http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ + + lex and yacc are also required. + any verison of bison >= 1.35 should work fine. + +* Libraries: + +Recommended versions, where applicable, are shown under the general +requirement. + + JACK 0.99.50 (CVS or snapshot release) (http://jackit.sourceforge.net) + + libxml2 2.5.X (http://xmlsoft.org/) + + libart_lgpl 2.3.X + + - available as part of gnome-libs, which you may already + have on your system. + + - also available via download from GNOME source FTP sites. + - see ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS.html + and then follow to sources/libart_lgpl + + glib 1.2 (http://www.gtk.org) + glib-1.2.8 (included with most distributions) + + GTK+ 1.2 (http://www.gtk.org) + gtk+-1.2.8 (included with most distributions) + + libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) + libsndfile-1.0 or higher + + libsamplerate (http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/) + libsamplerate 0.0.13 or higher + + the LADSPA SDK (http://www.ladspa.org/) + (See below) + + raptor (http://librdf.org/raptor/) + + lrdf (needs raptor) (http://plugin.org.uk/lrdf/) + liblrdf 0.4.0 or higher (earlier versions will + causes crashes when using plugin presets) + +Getting LADSPA +--------------- + +The Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) really only +consists of a header file, which is already included in the Ardour +source tree. + +However, you may want the plugins that come the "full" LADSPA "SDK", +so go ahead and download the whole package (it's not big) from +www.ladspa.org. + +I would also recommend getting Steve Harris' excellent set of LADSPA +plugins from http://plugin.org.uk/. They make Ardour into a truly +useful application. Other LADSPA plugins will be appearing - be sure +to watch the Linux Audio Development mailing list for announcements. + +2A) COMPILING FROM CVS +--------------------- + +Checkout the source from Ardour CVS (the `%' here is meant to be your +shell prompt): + +% cd /usr/local/src # just an example, it can be anywhere +% cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@ardour.org:/cvsroot/ardour login + # you will need to contact + # paul at linuxaudiosystems dot com + # to get the passphrase. See + # http://ardour.org/download.html + # for details on why this is. +% cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@ardour.org:/cvsroot/ardour -z3 co ardour + +2B) COMPILING FROM A TARBALL +---------------------------- + +As usual, fetch and unpack the tarball. The directory it creates, +ardour-<version>, is referred to below as "$AD". + +3) HOW TO COMPILE +----------------- + +We use the wonderful scons build system, which is started by just typing: + + scons + +in the top level directory of the ardour source tree. + +To speed things up, on a uniprocessor system, use "scons -j2", and on +an SMP system try "scons -j3", which will do a parallel build +(constructing more than one thing at a time). + +If you want to build ardour so that it can be debugged, you may wish +to use the DEBUG=yes option. Without it, ardour is built with +extreme optimization turned on and the result cannot be debugged +effectively. + +If you don't want the installation to happen in the "usual place", add +a PREFIX=/my/preferred/prefix option to scons. + +Compilation takes a while. Running with scons -j3 on a dual PII-450, +the entire build takes about 20 minutes, about the same time with +scons -j2 on 2.6GHz P4. + +Other scons options can be discovered using "scons --help" |