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CPLTarun
Asked: 2020-08-19 10:21:24 +0800 CST

Newbie: How to use QMAKE to compile and install FaustLive on Ubuntu Studio 20.04? Can't create Makefile with qmake w/ linux-g++

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FaustLive is an open source prototyping environment for Faust (open source, compiled audio programming language). Here is FaustLive's GitHub: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlive

After successfully compiling and installing Faust through the terminal, I'm having trouble doing the same with FaustLive on my Ubuntu Studio 20.04. Here are their build instructions: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlive/tree/master/Build

I have all their listed prerequisite packages installed (as far as I can tell, as a terminal/linux novice). I'm stuck at their "Project generation" step. After I changed directory to the FaustLive folder where I cloned their github as per instructions, I'm trying to execute:

$ qmake -spec /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++/qplatformdefs.h

When executing, qmake just repeats this:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++/qplatformdefs.h:3: Extra characters after test expression. It repeats with h:3, to h:59, skipping a few lines in between. It's final output is: Error processing project file: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++/qplatformdefs.h

What do I do from here?

software-installation compiling makefile g++ qmake

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Using PKGBUILD from ArchLinux we can get the following method for Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-default faust qrencode libjack-jackd2-dev \
libmicrohttpd-dev liblo-dev libsndfile1-dev libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlive.git
cd faustlive
git submodule update --init
cd Build

make

sudo cp FaustLive/FaustLive /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications/
sed "s|Icon=Faustlive|Icon=/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/FaustLive.png|" -i rsrc/FaustLive.desktop
sudo cp rsrc/FaustLive.desktop /usr/local/share/applications/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
sudo cp ../Resources/FaustLive.png /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps

    As the result you will be able to run FaustLive using its shortcut.

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