On Thursday 25 May 2006 10:46, jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:

> I do have a Debian machine in the mix but I am not up to any speed on
> Debian packages (or indeed rpm).  I tried to follow the instructions I
> found but they do not make much sense to be.  I keep finding missing
> commands.
>   Is there anyone who understands this stuff?

I have committed (just before what looks like yet another CVS outage)
some scripts for building .deb packages. Since I am not familiar with
Debian, these are probably far from being perfect, but at least I was
able to create something that looks like a .deb file.
To test the building of .deb packages, run this command as root from
the top level csound5 source directory (so that you have ./SConstruct),
after having the binaries built in ../__csound5 by mkpackage.py (see
below):

  ./installer/misc/makedeb.sh

This should create a file "../csound_5.02.0-1_i386.deb".

As noted above, makedeb.sh expects the contents of the package to be
in ../__csound5. You can create a full "release" build of Csound in
that directory using ./installer/misc/mkpackage.py. First, make sure
that all the required dependencies are present, including:
  - the file ../loris-1.3.0.tar.gz
  - the file ../stk-4.2.1.tar.gz
  - SWIG (I have 1.3.27, others may or may not work)
  - Boost (again, I have 1.33, others may or may not work)
  - FLTK 1.1.7 or newer, built with --enable-shared --enable-threads
  - FluidSynth 1.0.6 or newer
  - Python, version 2.4 is preferred
  - SCons
  - JACK
  - PortAudio v19
  - PortMidi
  - libsndfile, preferably 1.0.16 or newer
  - Tcl/Tk version 8.4
  - PD (http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html)
  - a recent version of liblo
Edit mkpackage.py and set directories etc. as required by the target
distribution, then run the following commands as a normal user:

  ./installer/misc/loris_stk_src.sh unpack
  ./installer/misc/mkpackage.py
  ./installer/misc/loris_stk_src.sh clean

Now you should have all the binaries, assuming that there were no
errors. Before running makedeb.sh, you may want to copy some additional
files, such as (assuming default target directories):
  - the HTML manual to ../__csound5/usr/local/share/doc/csound/manual,
    so that you have ../__csound5/usr/local/share/doc/csound/manual/index.html
  - any additional documentation files to ../__csound5/usr/local/share/doc/csound
  - custom shared libraries for FLTK etc. that will only be used by
    Csound to ../__csound5/usr/local/lib/csound/lib