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11 <h2><center>LinuxSampler for Debian &nbsp; <img src="gfx/logos/debian.png"> &nbsp; HOWTO by Christian Schoenebeck&nbsp;</center></h2>
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13 <center>February&nbsp;7th,&nbsp;2008</center><br>
14 <div style="background-color: #F4F4FF; margin: 1em 3em 1em 3em; padding: 1em 1em 1em 2.2em;">
15 <a href="#intro">1.&nbsp; Introduction</a><br>
16 <a href="#requirements">2.&nbsp; Requirements</a><br>
17 <a href="#build_backend">3.&nbsp; Building the Backend</a><br>
18 <a href="#benchmark">4.&nbsp; Benchmark</a><br>
19 <a href="#build_frontends">5.&nbsp; Building the Frontend(s) and Instrument Editor</a><br>
20 <a href="#houston">6.&nbsp; Troubleshooting</a><br>
21 <a href="#docs">7.&nbsp; Detailed Documentation</a><br>
22 <a href="#bugs">8.&nbsp; Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</a><br>
23 <a href="#contact">9.&nbsp; Contact</a><br>
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25
26 <a name="intro"></a>
27 <h3>1.&nbsp; Introduction</h3>
28 There are two ways to install LS &amp; friends on your Debian system. You can
29 either <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">download</a> and
30 install our precompiled Debian binary packages (x86 only), or you can compile
31 those Debian packages by yourself. Our precompiled Debian packages are cooked
32 for the latest Debian <i>stable</i> distribution (a.k.a. <i>"etch"</i>).
33 Installing them is pretty easy. Just download the latest versions of the
34 Debian binary packages from our server and install them (as root) with:
35 <pre>
36 dpkg -i REPLACE_BY_DEB_FILE
37 </pre>
38 However we recommend you to recompile at least libgig and LinuxSampler
39 (the backend) by yourself, to get the maximum performance out of your box
40 (because libgig and LinuxSampler are the software components which take the
41 most of your machine's resources under heavy setups which you're probably
42 going to do). Another reason at the moment for you to recompile them is when
43 you have an old machine that doesn't support
44 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions">SSE</a>
45 instructions. Because the latest Debian binary packages were accidently
46 compiled with using
47 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions">SSE</a>
48 floating point instructions (see
49 <a href="https://bugs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=71">bug report #71</a>).
50 In the latter case, linuxsampler would die with a
51 <i>"FATAL ERROR: Illegal instruction (SIGILL) occured!"</i> error message.
52 We're going to address this Debian binary issue with the next
53 LS (LinuxSampler) release. And of course, if you don't have a x86 based
54 system, you currently have to build the Debian packages by yourself as
55 well.<br>
56 <br>
57 So this HOWTO is focused on how to cook optimized Debian packages of
58 LS &amp; friends for your specific system. Of course you could also
59 compile everything the old fashioned way, that is:
60 <pre>
61 cd SOURCEDIR
62 make -f Makefile.cvs
63 ./configure
64 make
65 su
66 make install
67 </pre>
68 But many users who use a Debian based system (e.g. Ubuntu) prefer
69 (building and) installing Debian packages, since it's cleaner for their
70 environment and, which is probably more important to you, the Debian
71 packaging mechanism takes care of compile time and runtime library
72 dependencies etc.
73
74 <a name="requirements"></a>
75 <h3>2.&nbsp; Requirements</h3>
76 <ul>
77 <li>g++ (the GNU C++ compiler, 4.x recommended)</li>
78 <li>debhelper (Debian package build tools)</li>
79 <li>pkg-config (manages compiler and linker flags for libraries)</li>
80 <li>automake (automatic Makefile builder, 1.5 or higher required)</li>
81 <li>autoconf (automatic configure script builder)</li>
82 <li>libtool (generic library build tool)</li>
83 <li>fakeroot (required to build Debian packages as ordinary user)</li>
84 <li>couple more ... :-)</li>
85 </ul>
86 Each of the software components you're going to compile will have additional
87 requirements, but we'll address this later. The ones mentioned above are
88 absolute prerequisites for continueing, so make sure you have them installed.
89 If not, do so now (as root):
90 <pre>
91 apt-get install g++ debhelper pkg-config automake1.8 libtool fakeroot
92 </pre>
93 If this is the first Debian packages you're going to build, you may wonder
94 about the <i>fakeroot</i> tool. This is needed to "fool" the Debian
95 packaging tools that we're compiling as root. Because usually you don't
96 actually want to compile things as root, but the Debian packaging scripts
97 expect it.
98
99 <a name="build_backend"></a>
100 <h3>3.&nbsp; Building the Backend</h3>
101 Grab the source code files of libgig (e.g. from our CVS server, as
102 described on the
103 <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</a>). Then you
104 should optimize the compilation flags for your machine. This really depends
105 on what kind of CPU and other hardware you use. Open the file <i>debian/rules</i> of
106 the libgig sources in a text editor and watch out for the following line:
107 <pre>
108 ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
109 </pre>
110 This is the line where you'll place all your optimization options. Remove the
111 arguments --host and --build which are only meant for cross compilation and
112 prefix the line with your preferred optimization flags. So, for a Pentium4
113 machine it could look like:
114 <pre>
115 CXXFLAGS="-O3 -msse -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
116 </pre>
117 save the file and finally you can start the build process (as ordinary user) with:
118 <pre>
119 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
120 </pre>
121 from the libgig source directory, which should compile and build the .deb
122 files for you. In case it immediately aborts with the following error
123 message:
124 <pre>
125 Unmet build dependencies: ...
126 </pre>
127 Simply install the requested packages with "apt-get install" (or whatever you
128 prefer for package installation) and call the dpkg-buildpackage command
129 again. After a minute or so it should have left 3 .deb files one directory
130 above your libgig source directory. Install those 3 .deb files now, i.e. with
131 dpkg (as root):
132 <pre>
133 dpkg -i libgig_3.2.1-1_i386.deb libgig-dev_3.2.1-1_i386.deb
134 dpkg -i gigtools_3.2.1-1_i386.deb
135 </pre>
136 and now repeat these steps for LS. That is grab the LS sources, edit the
137 debian/rules files at the similar configure line. The only difference with LS
138 is that you have much more options now. For example on a recent Pentium4 machine,
139 the LS compile time options in LS's <i>debian/rules</i> file could become:
140 <pre>
141 CXXFLAGS="-O3 -msse -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info --enable-refill-streams=2 --enable-stream-size=320000 --enable-preload-samples=65536 --enable-max-voices=200 --enable-max-streams=220
142 </pre>
143 Just to let you know the difference: the options you apply to the "CXXFLAGS"
144 variable are options of the compiler (usually the GNU compiler,
145 see "man gcc" for all available gcc options). The parameters after
146 the "./configure" token are LS specific compile time options, i.e. the amount
147 of disk streams etc. For a full list of LS's compile time options and brief
148 explanations of them you can call:
149 <pre>
150 ./configure --help
151 </pre>
152 from LS's source directory. So after you modified the configure line in LS's
153 <i>debian/rules</i> file, you can once again call:
154 <pre>
155 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
156 </pre>
157 to get the LS packages cooked. This time it should take a bit longer. Once
158 again you'll get 3 Debian packages (<i>liblinuxsampler</i>, <i>liblinuxsampler-dev</i> and
159 <i>linuxsampler</i>). Install those 3 new LS packages again e.g. with "dpkg -i" like
160 already explained above with libgig.<br>
161 <br>
162 And that's it!</br>
163 <br>
164 The good thing: if you grabbed the sources of libgig and LS from CVS, you only
165 have to call:
166 <pre>
167 cvs update
168 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
169 </pre>
170 once in a while from the source directory to conveniently compile the latest
171 version with your personal optimizations and configuration parameters for
172 your system, because "cvs update" updates your local source files to the
173 latest bleeding edge version from our CVS server but won't touch your
174 modifications!
175 <br>
176 The problematic part is to find good compile time options for your specific
177 system. Unfortunately there is no real recipe for that, it always requires
178 to play around a bit with the various options. A little help on this however is
179 described next.
180
181 <a name="benchmark"></a>
182 <h3>4.&nbsp; Benchmark</h3>
183 You're most probably unsure which gcc (compiler) flags to use.
184 As said, this always means a bit playing around. For that you can use our stripped
185 down benchmark, which is located in the "benchmarks" directory of the LS
186 sources. The good thing about the benchmark: it's really light-weight, that
187 is it's a benchmark of our full gig sampling engine, but it doesn't depend on
188 any MIDI or audio drivers, nor does it require to load any sounds or to
189 handle with automake / ./configure crap and compiles really fast.<br>
190 <br>
191 Here's how it goes:
192 <ol>
193 <li>
194 adjust the file <i>benchmarks/Makefile</i> in the LS source directory with the
195 CFLAGS (pretty much the same as CXXFLAGS) of your choice
196 </li>
197 <li>
198 call "make" from the benchmarks/ directory
199 </li>
200 <li>
201 run the compiled binary "benchmarks/gigsynth"
202 </li>
203 </ol>
204 which will print you out benchmark values for your system on the console.
205 There are different kind of so called "synthesis modes", i.e. one with filter
206 on, one with filter off, one with resampling on, one with no resampling, etc.
207 each will shoot its own benchmark result.<br>
208 <br>
209 So that way you can easily and quickly play around with CFLAGS (a.k.a
210 CXXFLAGS) and figure out which one is beloved by your machine.
211
212 <a name="build_frontends"></a>
213 <h3>5.&nbsp; Building the Frontend(s) and Instrument Editor</h3>
214 <b>QSampler:</b> Building the QSampler Debian package is pretty much the same
215 process are described above for the backend. However usually you don't need
216 to take the hassle to optimize the compile time flags as thoroughly as you
217 would do for the backend. Since the frontend doesn't use much resources
218 anyway. Note however that you need to cook <b>and install</b> the liblscp Debian
219 packages <b>before</b> starting to build the QSampler package.<br>
220 <br>
221 <b>JSampler:</b> Many users prefer to use JSampler instead of QSampler,
222 since it currently provides more features and has a very slick skin based
223 user interface. Unfortunately JSampler hasn't been debianized yet, so there
224 is no way at the moment to build JSampler and jlscp Debian packages yet.
225 But this certainly going to change as soon as the GPL transition of the
226 Java SDK has been completed. So for now please use either the precompiled
227 JSampler .jar file (e.g. from our
228 <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</a>) or
229 refer to the
230 <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/jsampler/manual/html/jsampler.html#BUILDING_FROM_SOURCE">
231 build instructions</a> of the JSampler documentation.<br>
232 <br>
233 <b>gigedit:</b> This is the graphical instrument editor for .gig files.
234 Once again, building Debian packages of gigedit is similar to the
235 other software components. Just note that you should build gigedit
236 <b>after</b> you compiled <b>and installed</b> libgig and linuxsampler.
237 Otherwise gigedit might just be compiled as a stand-alone editor, that is
238 you might not use it in conjunction with LS &amp; friends. If you have
239 any trouble getting gigedit to work with LS, please refer to the
240 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_editing">
241 "live mode"</a> chapter of the gigedit documentation and its respective
242 <a href="http://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/gigedit/quickstart/gigedit_quickstart.html#live_trouble">
243 trouble shooting</a> section.
244
245 <a name="houston"></a>
246 <h3>6.&nbsp; Troubleshooting</h3>
247 <ul>
248 <li>
249 <div style="background-color: #FFF2F2;">
250 <u>Problem:</u> required libgig version not found
251 </div>
252 <div style="background-color: #F2FFF2;">
253 <u>Reason / Solution:</u>
254 make sure you don't have another, old version of libgig installed at another place ( e.g. under /usr/local )
255 </div>
256 </li>
257 </ul>
258
259 <a name="docs"></a>
260 <h3>7.&nbsp; Detailed Documentation</h3>
261 You find more detailed documentation about our software, i.e. about JSampler
262 or gigedit on our official <a href="http://linuxsampler.org/documentation.html">
263 LinuxSampler documentation site</a>.
264
265 <a name="bugs"></a>
266 <h3>8.&nbsp; Bugs, Problems and Feature Requests</h3>
267 Our Forum is a good place to ask for help:<br>
268 <br>
269 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">https://bb.linuxsampler.org</a><br>
270 <br>
271 We have a dedicated forum section for
272 newbies and support.<br>
273 <br>
274 No software is perfect, nor is ours, if you found bugs, please
275 report them using our bug tracking system:<br>
276 <br>
277 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/">http://bugs.linuxsampler.org/</a>
278
279 <a name="contact"></a>
280 <h3>9.&nbsp; Contact</h3>
281 If you have questions or want to help us to improve the sampler, please
282 subscribe to the <a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">
283 LinuxSampler Developer's mailing list</a>. If you want to contact a
284 certain developer instead, your can find our email addresses here:<br>
285 <br>
286 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html">http://www.linuxsampler.org/developers.html</a>
287 <br><br>
288 That's it, enjoy!<br>
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