Compiling lmms (Windows) - Umcaruje/lmms GitHub Wiki

Note: This tutorial is written for Ubuntu 14.04 x64. The steps may work on other Debian-based distros with slight adjustments.

Prerequisites

  1. Download the latest source code per Accessing git repository page

Installing packages for cross compiling

  1. Add Toby's cross-compiling repo for your Ubuntu build platform
# For Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tobydox/mingw-x-precise

# For Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tobydox/mingw-x-trusty
  1. Refresh available packages
sudo apt-get update
  1. Install build requirements
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake nsis cloog-isl libmpc3 mingw32

Note: Older systems may require libmpc2 in the place of libmpc3

  1. Fetch the mingw32 dependencies (700MB)
sudo apt-get install mingw32-x-qt mingw32-x-sdl mingw32-x-libvorbis \
mingw32-x-fluidsynth mingw32-x-stk mingw32-x-glib2 mingw32-x-portaudio \
mingw32-x-libsndfile mingw32-x-fftw mingw32-x-flac mingw32-x-fltk \
mingw32-x-libgig mingw32-x-libsamplerate mingw32-x-pkgconfig \
mingw32-x-binutils mingw32-x-gcc mingw32-x-runtime
  1. Optionally, again for mingw64 (500MB)
sudo apt-get install mingw64-x-qt mingw64-x-sdl mingw64-x-libvorbis \
mingw64-x-fluidsynth mingw64-x-stk mingw64-x-glib2 mingw64-x-portaudio \
mingw64-x-libsndfile mingw64-x-fftw mingw64-x-flac mingw64-x-fltk \
mingw64-x-libgig mingw64-x-libsamplerate mingw64-x-pkgconfig \
mingw64-x-binutils mingw64-x-gcc mingw64-x-runtime
  1. Prepare the mingw build environment (assumes you've already cloned the repo per Accessing git repository page)
cd
cd lmms
mkdir build target
cd build

Compile

  1. Run the mingw build script

../build_mingw32

Note: You will receive errors from Cmake (libfluid, sdl not found, etc), try again

../build_mingw32 make

Note: If you receive "Error 2" At 42%, try running make again


### Package

1. Creates the Windows installer package

```sh
make package
  1. You will receive a message
CPack: - package: /home/ubuntu/lmms/build/lmms-x.x.x-win32.exe generated.
  1. You may now distribute your Windows Installer package (25MB)

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64-bit

  1. Remove previous cmake cache
rm CMakeCache.txt
rm -rf CMakeFiles
  1. Repeat Compile and Package steps again for ../build_mingw64