INSTALL for Carla

To install Carla, simply run as usual:

$ make
$ [sudo] make install

You can run it without installing, by using instead:

$ make
$ ./source/frontend/carla

Packagers can make use of the PREFIX and DESTDIR variable during install, like this:

$ make install PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=./test-dir

BUILD DEPENDENCIES

There are no required build dependencies.

But if you want the frontend (which is likely), you will need PyQt5 (python3 version).

You likely will also want:

libmagic/file (for auto-detection of binary types, needed for plugin-bridges)
liblo (for OSC support, also a requirement for DSSI UIs)

Optional for extra Linux-only engine features:

ALSA
PulseAudio
X11 (LV2/VST X11 UI support)

Optional for extended LV2 UIs support: (Linux only)

Gtk2
Gtk3
Qt4
Qt5

Optional for extra samplers support:

FluidSynth (SF2/3)

Optional for extra LADSPA plugin information:

python3-rdflib

You can use:

$ make features

To find out which dependencies are missing.

Under Debian based systems, you can use this command to install all dependencies:

sudo apt install python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-rdflib pyqt5-dev-tools \
  libmagic-dev liblo-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libx11-dev \
  libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libqt4-dev qtbase5-dev libfluidsynth-dev

Under Fedora, you can use the following command instead:

sudo dnf install python3-qt5-devel python3-rdflib \
  file-devel liblo-devel alsa-lib-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel libX11-devel
  gtk2-devel gtk3-devel qt4-devel qt5-devel fluidsynth-devel libsndfile-devel

BUILD BRIDGES

Carla can make use of plugin bridges to load additional plugin types.

32bit plugins on 64bit systems

Simply run make posix32 after a regular Carla build, and install or run Carla locally.
This feature requires a compiler capable of building 32bit binaries.

JACK Applications inside Carla

This is built by default on Linux systems.
Requires LD_PRELOAD support by the OS and the GCC compiler.
Does not work with clang. (if you discover why, please let me know!)

Windows plugins (via Wine)

Requires a mingw compiler, and winegcc.

First, we build the Windows bridges using mingw, like this: (adjust as needed)

make win32 CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-g++
make win64 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++

To finalize, we build the wine<->native bridges using winegcc:

make wine32
make wine64

2.5KB Raw Blame History