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Notes on building MilkyTracker

MilkyTracker now uses CMake to produce the build files. This replaces the previously separately maintained Autotools, Visual Studio and Xcode project files. Some historic platform-specific build files remain in the platforms directory - these are untested.

The CMake configuration will auto-detect the platform it is building on, but can be configured to force an SDL build if required by setting the FORCESDL option.

NOTE: The use of FORCESDL is for developers only. No support is provided for SDL builds on Windows/macOS.

Dependencies

To build the SDL port of MilkyTracker (used for Linux) you will need the following development libraries installed on your system:

  • RtMidi/ALSA (optional, for Linux MIDI support)
  • JACK (optional)
  • SDL2

For all non-Windows/macOS ports, the decompression libs (optional):

  • lhasa
  • zlib
  • zziplib

These are also provided as Git submodules, see below.

For example, on Ubuntu 18.04, you might run the following command to satisfy all of the above dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libjack-dev liblhasa-dev \
librtmidi-dev libsdl2-dev libzzip-dev

Other distros might use different naming schemes for their packages. Please search your distro's package manager for the above library names.

Submodules (Windows/macOS only)

The following Git submodules are provided for linking into the Windows and macOS binaries:

  • RtAudio (Windows only)
  • lhasa
  • zlib (Windows only, macOS provides this)
  • zziplib

To obtain these, cd to the MilkyTracker source directory and type:

$ git submodule update --init

Building

As with most other CMake-based projects, building MilkyTracker requires two steps:

  1. Generating the build files for your desired build system using CMake
  2. Invoking the generated build system

Step 1

At the command line, step 1 is performed as follows:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..

On macOS, add -GXcode to the last command to generate an Xcode project instead of using GNU make.

Note that you could also use the CMake GUI for this step instead of the command line.

Step 2

Step 2 varies depending on the target OS/build system. On Linux and macOS (when using GNU make):

$ make

On Windows, you will probably have generated a Visual Studio project instead. Simply open it with Visual Studio and compile the 'MilkyTracker' target.

On macOS, the same applies if you decided to generate an Xcode project using -GXcode. Open the project up and build the 'MilkyTracker' target.

macOS specific notes

In addition to CMake, you will need the following extra packages. The recommended way of obtaining these is by using Homebrew or MacPorts.

  • automake
  • libtool
  • xmlto

The correct way to build a release .DMG for macOS, including special document icons, is to run the build_macos.sh script.