Linux Version

[Florian_Mosleh (florian)]

It’s also obvious that if you want to sell a Renoise version for Linux it cannot be a mere Windows port, following the same (ugly) conventions that you have in Windows. For example it has to handle configuration files in the linux manner (one system-wide setting in /etc and per-user setting in the home)… and you should expect to do something like this:
$ renoise mytune.rns - | oggenc --output=mytune.ogg -
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i think that renoise’s XML based configuration architechture actually works very similar to linux and unix configuration schema.

[Florian_Mosleh (florian)]

@vvoois:

Just a pity you have to compile the source yourself…

(not for the beginner)

As root go in the directory where you have extracted the tar.gz and type:

./configure ; make ; make install

Usually things are never so easier when dealing with binary packages.

Well, Jenner…

Usually that supposed to be the usual way of getting things accomplished.

But once you get errors about missing libraries during (even when you did a make mrproper) the make dep process… Things do not go as being explained at the site and from several corners you do get a shipload of answer what you could attempt to do to fix the problem, if you request support and when eventually nothing works out and someone else turns out to be so kind to compile the binary edition for you. (or nobody cares to go that far and you have to find an alternate or even complete different solution)

If Linux ppl want to understand why still not everyone is using Linux today yet it is because amongst others those reasons.
And ofcourse, you have many Linux distributions, so it’s easier to offer just the source distribution rather than compiling 15 to 20 different compilations so each of them runs best in it’s native Linux distribution.
But that is one of the major flaws i consider with Linux.
There are IMHO too many flavors and too many differences in structures.
Even when claimed that the kernel is the same everywhere, the kernel is actually not the same everywhere.

For as long as i know Linux and i had to deal with source binaries…
There was not one source package i could actually compile according the README and the readme was just as general as any other in the source-distribution:
make clean (or make mrproper)
make
make install

Not one time, did it worked as simple as was written and i’ve been working with RedHat and Debian based packages, installed the whole Linux edition with all it’s options on the harddisk to have all libraries and development environment installed, yet still no satisfactory results.
Maybe i’m just dumb… but i’m not the only one…

sorry to do two seperate posts:

this is actually a misconception. the reason most linux apps come as source waiting to be compiled is to make them integrate more comfortably in the various different versions of linux which like to stash their libraries in different places, and so that the app can be compiled for different cpu archs.

but there are linux and unix apps that are compiled as “Static binaries”. that is a program that has all of it’s object libraries compiled in. blender is one of these. it’s a single file that you download and run (and it’s a 3d modeling and environment scripting app so it’s no cheesy c++ math program that runs from the console). The drawback is that the program file is a bit larger (eating up more of that precious ram, but this would honestly be an easy fix for the end user compile problems, and the dillema of distributing the source for a closed source app.

besides that you could also make binary packages for Redhat (RPM), Debian and Suse (because i know how much you germans love your suse). so tha if you’re using one of the more poular linux distros you can run a more memory friendly build of renoise, but still run it on Mandrake, BSD or Solaris (??) if you really wanted to.

[DDspeed]

After all this thread I didn’t figure why someone should look for a “brute porting” of Renoise. For me is a non-sense… I just say that.
So is really enought converting the source with winelib and compile the stuff?

If it will be done this way it will be like Sk@le tracker. Totally useless.