cmake is a system for checking dependencies and configuring for different platforms etc. We used to use scons but with cs6 replaced it with cmake, which is more efficient in many ways and arguably easier to configure Get the cmake system, create a directory in which to build and issue cmake. Few more details in the manual on building csound6 ==John ff Quoting Cacophony7 : > seems confusing! what is Cmake? creating that config.user.pri file sounds > hard. What do I need? I got Python and Git for one thing. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/How-do-I-compile-QuteCsound-CsoundQt-tp5728644p5728877.html > Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug trackers > csound6: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/tickets/ > csound5: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/bugs/ > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body > "unsubscribe csound"