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- fixed little typo
- updated instructions for generating API docs

1 Content
2 =======
3 libgig actually consists of three parts:
4
5 - RIFF classes (RIFF.h, RIFF.cpp): Provides convenient methods to parse and
6 access arbitrary RIFF files.
7 - DLS classes (DLS.h, DLS.cpp): They're using the RIFF classes to parse
8 DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Level 1 and 2
9 files and provide abstract access to the
10 data.
11 - gig classes (gig.h, gig.cpp): These are based on the DLS classes and
12 provide the necessary extensions for
13 the Gigasampler file format.
14
15 Requirements
16 ============
17 I simply used automake & co this time so you will need to have automake,
18 autoconf and libtool installed. I used the following versions:
19
20 automake 1.6.3
21 autoconf 2.57
22
23 If you want to compile the 'gigextract' application that comes with these
24 sources then you will additionally need to have libaudiofile (>= 0.2.3)
25 or libsndfile (>= 1.0.2) installed. Note: for Windows systems only
26 libsndfile is available.
27
28 Non-POSIX systems
29 =================
30 If you don't have a POSIX system, you have to set 'POSIX' to '0' in RIFF.h.
31 Instead of using POSIX calls then standard C calls will be used for file
32 access. This applies e.g. to Windows systems.
33
34 Compiling
35 =========
36
37 You can either compile the sources and install the library directly on
38 your system or you can create Redhat or Debian packages.
39
40 a) Compiling and installing directly
41
42 Use 'make -f Makefile.cvs && ./configure && make' to compile the library,
43 all tools, demo applications, documentation and install them with
44 'make install'. You can use 'make distclean && make -f Makefile.cvs clean'
45 to clean up everything again.
46
47 b) Creating Debian packages
48
49 Use 'make -f Makefile.cvs && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' to compile
50 and create the Debian packages. This will generate 3 Debian packages:
51
52 libgig: Contains the shared library files.
53 libgig-dev: Contains the header files and documentation for building
54 applications using libgig.
55 gigtools: Contains the tools and demo applications.
56
57 You can use 'fakeroot debian/rules clean && make -f Makefile.cvs clean'
58 to clean up everything again.
59
60 c) Creating Redhat packages
61
62 You need to have the rpmbuild tool installed and properly configured to
63 create RPM packages. To create the RPM packages do the following:
64
65 * Get .spec file generated by ./configure and edit it as appropriate.
66
67 * Copy the source tarball to "/usr/src/<rpmdir>/SOURCES" directory,
68 where <rpmdir> is dependent to the system you are using. For SuSE
69 <rmpdir> will be "packages", for Mandrake <rpmdir> is "RPM" and for
70 Redhat / Fedora <rpmdir> always equals "redhat".
71
72 * Build the rpm(s) by invoking 'rpmbuild -bb <specfile>' from the
73 command line.
74
75 On success, the resulting rpm(s) can usually be found under the proper
76 "/usr/src/<rpmdir>/RPMS/<arch>" directory.
77
78 Tools
79 =====
80
81 Beside the actual library there are four applications:
82
83 gigdump: Demo app that prints out the content of a .gig file.
84 gigextract: Extracts samples from a .gig file.
85 dlsdump: Demo app that prints out the content of a DLS file.
86 rifftree: Tool that prints out the RIFF tree of an arbitrary RIFF
87 file.
88
89 API Documentation
90 =================
91
92 If you have Doxygen installed you can generate the API documentation by
93 running 'make docs' in the sources' top level directory. The API
94 documentation will be generated in the 'doc' subdirectory.
95
96 Patches
97 =======
98 If you find bugs or have improvements, your patches are always welcome!
99 Send them either directly to me or to the LinuxSampler developer's mailing
100 list <linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
101
102 Credits
103 =======
104 This library is based on the reverse engineering work of Paul Kellett and
105 Ruben van Royen. Thanks for your great work!
106
107 Christian Schoenebeck <cuse@users.sourceforge.net>

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