distrho/distrho-ports-extra

Extra "ports" of juce-based plugins using the distrho build system

DISTRHO Ports

DISTRHO is an open source project with the goal of making cross-platform audio plugins and GNU/Linux + LV2 ports.

This repository contains the GNU/Linux and LV2 ports, specifically those made with JUCE

BUILD DEPENDENCIES

To build plugins, you first need to install the following dependencies:

All OSes:

• meson

GNU/Linux: (development versions of these)

• ALSA
• freetype2
• fftw3
• OpenGL/Mesa
• X11 core and extensions (XShm, XRender and XCursor)

BUILD and INSTALL

In order to build and install the plugins, just run the usual steps for a meson project:

meson setup build --buildtype release
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install

distrho-ports-extra's Issues

New protoplug release

Just for information: https://github.com/pac-dev/protoplug/releases/tag/v1.4.0 has been released.

make lv2 fails because it cannot find String::empty

Somehow, I am not able to successfully make the LV2 plugins. "Building argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2" fails because String::empty is not defined. Is it possible that this plugin needs the following?:

#define JUCE_ALLOW_STATIC_NULL_VARIABLES 1

symlinks link outside git repo dir

libs and src are symlinks to outside the git repo dir. It's not obvious which repository contains what should be in there.

make fails at linking

It's possible I've missed a symlink or a dependency.

root@zynthian:~/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra# make
make -C ports
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra/ports'
install -d ../bin/lv2
make -C argotlunar/LV2
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra/ports/argotlunar/LV2'
==== Building argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2 ====
Linking argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljuce
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljuce
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2.make:85: ../../../bin/lv2/argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2.so] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:22: argotlunar2.lv2/argotlunar2] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra/ports/argotlunar/LV2'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:13: lv2] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra/ports'
make: *** [Makefile:10: all] Error 2

top level directory looks like this

root@zynthian:~/DISTRHO-Ports-Extra# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb  9 08:22 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Feb  9 08:28 libs -> ../DISTRHO-Ports/libs/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1258 Feb  9 08:19 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb  9 08:19 ports
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1303 Feb  9 08:19 README.md
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   25 Feb  9 08:28 scripts -> ../DISTRHO-Ports/scripts/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb  9 08:19 sdks

Switch to meson / ninja?

Before DISTRHO-Ports switched to meson / ninja for the build process, it was sufficient to do a make libs on DISTRHO-Ports in order to create the required artifacts to build this repository.
Is there a corresponding meson / ninja libs target in DISTHRO-Ports now, or do we need to build the complete package? Furthermore, are there any plans to switch this repository to meson / ninja too?