Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

[Aere Greenway]

David:

Thank you very much for the detailed information on how to do this.  

I should be able to get it done within a week, despite being in the final stages of development on my own MIDI creation.  I also have a Rosegarden fix to test, and should be able to get to that too, this week.  

- Aere


On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 06:59 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 07/24/2012 07:10 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> > David:
> >
> > Where can I find instructions on how to generate the test system (on
> > Ubuntu Linux), without taking away qjackctl (which I will need for testing)?
>
> There is a wiki page
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/BuildingWithCMake
> but in short, here's how to do it on Ubuntu:
>
> 1) unpack the tarball and cd into that directory (fluidsynth-1.1.6)
>
> 2) install dependencies:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake
> sudo apt-get build-dep fluidsynth
>
> 3) build:
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> make
>
> 4) Run
> sudo make install
> ...to install the new version. Once you have finished testing, run
> sudo make uninstall
> ...to revert to the version that comes with Ubuntu.
>
> 5) Make sure you restart QSynth or other applications using FluidSynth 
> after running "sudo make install" or "sudo make uninstall".
>
> Please *do not* move .so files, or files in /usr/bin, around manually. 
> Only use "sudo make install" / "sudo make uninstall" to switch installed 
> FluidSynth version.
>
> // David

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Sincerely,
Aere