Compiling from source

Building FreeMix is not difficult by itself, but as the project is divided into several interdependent modules and depends on a number of external libraries many things can possibly go wrong.

First of all you need to satisfy the needed dependencies. You'll not only need the following packages, but also their development parts (usually they're called the same as the runtime packages, with a -dev added to their name). The configure scripts will usually tell you if it can't find something it needs before building the module.

Dependencies

Most recent distributions (starting from Fedora Core 5, Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake or Debian Etch) which features GNOME should ship these packages in their repositories.

For every module:

• GLib 2.0, version 2.6 or newer, available from  http://www.gtk.org

For fm_server:

• GStreamer 0.10, any recent version, available from  http://www.gstreamer.net
• JACK, version 0.100 or later, available from  http://www.jackaudio.org (optional but recommended)
• the ALSA userspace library (libasound), available from  http://www.alsa-project.org (optional, Linux only)
• libsamplerate, any recent version, available from  http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC

For fm_gui:

• GTK+ 2.0, version 2.6 or newer, available from  http://www.gtk.org
• libglade 2.0, version 2.6 or newer, available from  http://glade.gnome.org

Build order

You'll need to build the modules and install them in the following order:

rgc
fm_server
fm_tools
fm_gui

As most other software packages, they install by default to /usr/local. This can be changed by passing the --prefix argument to their configure scripts. If you're installing them to a prefix different from /usr, or if you're not using the --prefix argument at all, you'll need to set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing to the correct prefix.

Build instruction

First of all, choose a directory to install into (we'll call it MY_DIRECTORY. You don't need to be root to compile FreeMix, just write permissions to that directory.

Before starting, you'll need to set the correct pkg-config data directory

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=MY_DIRECTORY/lib/pkgconfig

Then, for each of the module you're interested in, go into the source directory of the module and do the usual

./configure --prefix=MY_DIRECTORY
make
make install

The executable files needed to start the program will be installed to MY_DIRECTORY/bin .