Installing csound5 from source on fedora 8

Here are my notes on installing csound5 from source on Fedora 8. I got a
 segfault with the Linux binary installer hence the attempt to install
from source.


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Building csound 5.08 from source
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1. download Csound5.08.tgz  from sourceforge

2. tar xzf Csound5.08.tgz

3. cd Csound5.08

4. run scons -h and work out what devel packages to install. I installed

libsndfile-devel
portaudio-devel
fltk-devel
fluidsynth-devel
jack-audio-connection-kit-devel
liblo-devel
tcl-devel
tk-devel

5. edit custom.py and modify the path to fltk as follows

if sys.platform[:5] == 'linux':
    platform = 'linux'
    customCPPPATH.append('/usr/include/FL')
    customLIBPATH.append('/usr/lib')

6. try and run scons as follows

scons useDouble=1 buildCsound5GUI=1 generatePDF=1 \
      buildStkOpcodes=1 buildTclcsound=1 buildVirtual=1 \
      useOSC=1 buildLoris=0

(note I couldn't use gcc4opt=1 as I got an error in config.log with
an unrecognised option mtune=1)

This failed as /usr/include/FL (the fltk include files) included
a file math.h, which was used in preference to the system math.h

I tried renaming /usr/include/FL/math.h to /usr/include/FL/fl_math.h

The next failure was with dirent.h - I tried renaming

/usr/include/FL/dirent.h to /usr/include/FL/fl_dirent.h

A better solution with gcc would be to use -idirafter /usr/include/FL
which would cause that directory to be searched *after* the system
include paths, thus ensuring the correct version of math.h and dirent.h.
However I don't know how to do that with scons.

The next failure was the missing "fluid" command. To fix this:

yum install fltk-fluid

Finally building completed.

7. To install

./install.py

8. Edit your .cshrc or .bash_profile and set
export OPCODEDIR64=/usr/local/lib/csound/plugins64

or

setenv OPCODEDIR64 /usr/local/lib/csound/plugins64

9. set

RAWWAVE_PATH /usr/local/share/csound/rawwaves

in either .bash_profile or .cshrc


--
Alan Fitch


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