[PD-dev] building fluidsynth~ (was: building fluid~ on Linux)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 14:35 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> Em ter., 3 de mai. de 2022 às 12:40, Roman Haefeli
> <reduzent at gmail.com> escreveu: 
> > >   I guess I'll have to join the fluidsynth list and ask for that.
> > > Maybe they can also help me with the other issue where even a
> > > x86_64
> > > fluidsynth installed for monterey via homebrew doesn't work in
> > > earlier versions of macOS.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this would be the right place to ask. What they
> > provide,
> > works. The issues that the homebrew team is trying to address with
> > their way to do things are probably not related to the source code,
> > but
> > more related to how things work on new Macs.
> > 
> 
> 
> but they provide pre built stuff
> at https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases/tag/v2.2.7
> 
> and I already did ask for universal builds and there was some
> interest where someone said "I'm open to publish those universal
> binaries with the fluidsynth releases. I could sign them as
> well" see 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2022-05/msg00002.html

Well, glad you already asked, then!
> 
> > I often find things are a bit easier on Linux, but that's what I
> > got
> > accustomed to. In the case of the fluidsynth~ external, using the
> > dynamic libraries from my distro (Ubuntu 22.04) doesn't seem
> > practical,
> > as libfluidsynth.so.3 links against virtually half the system.
> > After
> > executing the localdep script, I end up with 53 *.so files. Most of
> > them aren't actually used when libfluidsynth is used for the pd
> > external. Creating a more stripped down build of libfluidsynth
> > probably
> > would make sense here.

> Cool, but how? :) 

By building fluidsynth from source with the minimal set of configure
flags required for the pd external.

Roman


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