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Compiled my first program and it made me happy!

Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 18:11
by ITSMERSH
Hi,

currently I'm quite happy.

Tonight, after a few hours of try and error, I was able to compile my first real big program. Ok, there have been a few small tools like xdotool and wmctrl.

But tonight I was able to compile the latest version of Qtractor, which is v0.9.3 with LADSPA, LV2, DSSI and VST plugins enabled! :D

I just had to had to announce this! 8)

Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 19:11
by mikeslr
Just want to congradulate you.

And ask: When you first started working with Puppies did you even think that compiling applications you would even want to do?

Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 20:56
by ITSMERSH
Of course, not! :lol:

When I started with Muppy 008 in 2009/2010 I found a really nice OS.
It was pretty well setup with almost all programs I wanted to use.
It came along with two (or three?) BIG .sfs modules and I was very surprised
and impressed, as there was a lot of programs available just after doing the first reboot.

When I joined the forum I suspected this would be the everlasting pleasure in all puppies. :wink:

Instead I had to work, to work, to work, to... :roll:

:D

Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 23:28
by ITSMERSH
Ha ha!

In Germany we have some sayings like:

- jetzt ist der Groschen gefallen

or even

- jetzt ist der Knoten geplatzt

It was some hard work and it took almost one hour to compile, but this is
Rosegarden 18.12 "Worcestershire" compiled in BionicPup64 (still 7.9.6). :D

I had also compiled QjackCtl successfully, though it freezes X just like the package from Ubuntu.

Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2018, 01:23
by mikeslr
Ha. Ha.

My German, unused for 50 years, read "- jetzt ist der Groschen gefallen" as "Now have the Mighty fallen". Little misunderstandings like that are how wars are started. :lol: But a little bird told me Groschen wasn't the spelling as I remembered so I google-translated.

It will be easy for me to remember the second saying. I have cousins with the last name Platt. :)

Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2018, 03:01
by ITSMERSH
Hattrick! :wink:

Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2018, 22:10
by ITSMERSH
Hydrogen 1.0.0

Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2018, 22:33
by musher0
Enough, Rainer, stop! :lol: Don't throw any more at us!!! :lol:
(I.e.: Congratulations on your new-found skill !) :D

Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2018, 23:44
by ITSMERSH
Thanks musher0! :D

Yoshimi 1.5.9.

Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2018, 13:05
by rockedge
gone crazy I see. I am also in the middle of a compile craze.

ZoneMinder , opencv, darknet all succssesful....I also have done rosegarden and some of the others as well. They work best when self compiled and all the little kinks straightened out..

Good work RSH !! keep on going and soon a custom system for studio music will come out of your Forges.

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 14:47
by 666philb
ITSMERSH wrote: I had also compiled QjackCtl successfully, though it freezes X just like the package from Ubuntu.
hi ITSMERSH

to fix the freezing in qjackctl you need to add --disable-xunique
eg

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./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-xunique

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 16:47
by ITSMERSH
rockedge wrote:gone crazy I see.
Absolutely and in complete! :lol:

After I had downloaded thousands of tons of developers packages, I created a .sfs module from those packages installed during compiling sessions.

So, I have a devx_extension_abc_xxx.sfs to load. Loaded the devx and the extension, extracted the QjackCtl archive, entered the directory, opened a terminal and...

...the result
666philb wrote:hi ITSMERSH

to fix the freezing in qjackctl you need to add --disable-xunique
eg

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./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-xunique
Thanks!

This worked at first go and out of the box. :D

QJackCtl 0.5.5! 8)

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 17:48
by ITSMERSH

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./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-xunique
It's equal for Qsynth! :!:

Good to know.

Thanks again! :D

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 18:05
by 666philb
also qsampler

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 19:16
by ITSMERSH
666philb wrote:also qsampler
Aahh, yes.

Qsampler!

I don't know how often I'd downloaded this and it never worked.

Another target !!! :P

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 21:18
by ITSMERSH
Qsampler compiled fine.

Runs immediately, but complains:
Could not start server.

Sorry.

What ever I tried by changing settings in GUI or editing Qsampler.conf manually, didn't change anything. No chance. I recall, this was also a problem in previous versions from repository.

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 21:46
by 666philb

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 22:03
by ITSMERSH
Thanks. :)

Will give it a go, right now after doing this post.

Aqualung R-??? (probably release candidate 1.0-rc1).

This one was surprising.
It complained missing GNU gettext.
Found it, downloaded, compiled, installed.

Aqualung compiled immediately. :D

Ok, linuxsampler backend downloaded...

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 22:12
by 666philb
you may know this already .....
if you have more than 1 cpu core you can speed up the process.
example for 4 cores

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make -j4
2 cores

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make -j2
8 cores

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make -j8
if you have 4 cores you could use make -j3 and leave a core left for other stuff like browsing. don't set it higher than the cores you have!!

Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2018, 22:31
by ITSMERSH
Thanks.

Had read this before but didn't make a note.

LinuxSampler compiled immediately.

After installing Qsampler connects and works.