you're probably right, I'm not so sure what the situation is,
since these days no one really statically links anymore.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lato" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:05 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Beginners Question, Csound as 
stand-alone softsynth / plugin?


> Thanks for the reminder, that slipped my mind for some reason.  However, 
> if you statically link to an LGPL library, there are certain distribution 
> requirements that do not apply to shared libraries.  In LGPL v. 3 you must 
> provide a way for the user to re-link the application to a modified 
> version of csound.  I believe the requirements for LGPL v.2 are 
> essentially the same.
>
> John W. Lato
> Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
> The University of Texas at Austin
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>
> victor wrote:
>> No need to license it as GPL; csound is LGPL, it can be
>> linked to by programs with other licenses.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lato" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:11 PM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Beginners Question, Csound as stand-alone 
>> softsynth / plugin?
>>
>>
>>> You could statically link to the CSound libraries from C/C++, provided 
>>> you license your program as GPL (I think).  You could also distribute a 
>>> .csound dll with an application, which has the drawbacks of being 
>>> windows-only and also subject to licensing restrictions.
>>>
>>> I don't really see any benefit to this, though.  It's more work to 
>>> maintain as you'd need versions for multiple platforms as opposed to a 
>>> .csd which will work with any csound.
>>>
>>> To answer the OP's question (assuming I understand it properly), I would 
>>> say just distribute the .csd.  That is by far the most portable and 
>>> concise option.  If you want a synth created in csound, then go ahead 
>>> and distribute the code to that as well, but the end-user will still 
>>> need to have csound installed to link to.
>>>
>>> John W. Lato
>>> Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
>>> The University of Texas at Austin
>>> 1 University Station E3100
>>> Austin, TX 78712-0435
>>> (512) 232-2090
>>>
>>> Michael Bechard wrote:
>>>> Don't you still need the CSound libraries if you went with Python or 
>>>> any of the other languages you mentioned?
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: victor 
>>>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:42:22 PM
>>>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Beginners Question, Csound as stand-alone 
>>>> softsynth / plugin?
>>>>
>>>> With Python, TclTk, Java or C/C++ it is very easy to do a standalone 
>>>> for
>>>> Csound.  MaxMSP standalones are not really standalones, they need
>>>> the maxplay bit (or embeded). Of all current systems, Csound 5 is the
>>>> one the offers the most flexibility in terms of choice of language for
>>>> implementation. At the end of the day, it is a programming library.
>>>>  There is also cabbage by Rory Walsh, which is a standalone builder. 
>>>> And
>>>> on windows, his Lettuce can generate standalones as well (I think).
>>>>  Victor
>>>>
>>>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>>>     *From:* peiman khosravi 
>>>>     *To:* csound@lists.bath.ac.uk 
>>>>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:23 PM
>>>>     *Subject:* [Csnd] Re: Beginners Question, Csound as stand-alone
>>>>     softsynth / plugin?
>>>>
>>>>     Perhaps this is not the place to say this. But I think it is very
>>>>     easy to make a standalone application with RTcmix. And of course
>>>>     with maxmsp. RTcmix in particular is very similar to csound in 
>>>> terms
>>>>     of syntax, if you know csound you will find it very easy to learn 
>>>> as
>>>>     they are both descendants of the Music V family of languages. I 
>>>> have
>>>>     no idea how you would do this with csound maybe someone else can
>>>>     say, but I would imagine that it would require some level of
>>>>     extra-csound programing expertise. Best
>>>>     Peiman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 22 Jul 2008, at 15:30, Andreas Jansson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'm an audio engineering student doing an essay on synthesiser 
>>>>> design.
>>>>>     I have not been using Csound for very long, but I want to submit a
>>>>>     Csound instrument with my appendices. However I would rather not 
>>>>> have
>>>>>     to include the whole Csound library, in order to make it easier
>>>>>     marked.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I have been reading about Csound VST and csLADSPA, but from what I
>>>>>     understand, they also require the Csound library(?). Is there any 
>>>>> way
>>>>>     of "compiling" the .csd file as a VST-plugin, or a stand-alone
>>>>>     solft-synth "application"?
>>>>>
>>>>>     I use an Intel Macbook, but I think could find me a PC if 
>>>>> necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>>     All the best,
>>>>>     Andreas Jansson
>>>>>
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