Hi! Forgive me for bothering you with another compiling related question. I never EVER managed to compile a large app on ANY OS, maybe I’ll be able with Audacity… But not yet, because I’m getting “No targets and no makefile” when running make. Here’s the output:
make -C lib-src
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src'
make -C FileDialog
make[2]: Entering directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/FileDialog'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/FileDialog'
ln -sf FileDialog/FileDialog.a FileDialog.a
make -C libogg
make[2]: Entering directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/libogg'
make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/libogg'
make[1]: *** [libogg-recursive] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src'
make: *** [audacity] Error 2
I (am trying to) follow the basic steps: svn checkout, install the build dependencies, ./configure, make, etc…
Note that before I was even able to run make I combed the internet to see why ./configure wasn’t working. It was saying that a numeric argument was expected. I passed that error by commenting a line in “configure”, as a forum thread I found somewhere suggested.
Try running “apt-get build-dep audacity” again, and check the output carefully to see if there are any dependencies that cannot be installed.
If that all looks OK, try doing the ./configure and make again, after running make distclean.
=== configuring in lib-src/libid3tag (/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/libid3tag)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/bash: /media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
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checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
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checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
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checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
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configure: creating libtool
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checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
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checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating msvc++/Makefile
config.status: creating libid3tag.list
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
=== configuring in lib-src/libresample (/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/libresample)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking for gcc... gcc
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checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
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checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
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checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
checking inttypes.h usability... yes
checking inttypes.h presence... yes
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/config.h
Type 'configure --help' to see options.
Type 'make' to build libresample.
=== configuring in lib-src/sbsms (/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/sbsms)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in `pwd`
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checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
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checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
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checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
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/bin/bash: /media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating libsbsms.spec
config.status: creating sbsms.pc
config.status: creating src/config.h
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing depfiles commands
=== configuring in lib-src/libnyquist (/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/libnyquist)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/bash: /media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
Run 'configure --help' for an explanation of the possible options,
otherwise run 'make' to build libnyquist.
=== configuring in lib-src/portmixer (/media/ARHIVA/ARHIVA INFO/WORK/AUDACITY/audacity-read-only/lib-src/portmixer)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
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configure: ---------------------------------------
configure: Including support for OSS
configure: Including support for ALSA
configure: ---------------------------------------
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
Finished configure:
LIBVORBIS: using LOCAL libraries
LIBMAD: using SYSTEM libraries
LIBSNDFILE: using SYSTEM libraries
LIBFLAC: using LOCAL libraries
LIBID3TAG: using LOCAL libraries
LIBSAMPLERATE: disabled
LIBRESAMPLE: using LOCAL libraries
LIBSBSMS: using LOCAL libraries
LIBSOUNDTOUCH: using SYSTEM libraries
LIBNYQUIST: using LOCAL libraries
LIBVAMP: using SYSTEM libraries
LIBEXPAT: using LOCAL libraries
LIBTWOLAME: using SYSTEM libraries
FFMPEG: using SYSTEM libraries
PORTSMF: using SYSTEM libraries
PORTAUDIO: using SYSTEM libraries
LAME: using LOCAL libraries
ladspa: enabled
audiounits: disabled
prefix=/usr/local/
I tried it, then it complained about libflac. I appended --without-libflac, then it complained about libid3tag. I appended --without-libid3tag then it gave me this:
There are several IDEs available for Linux including Codeblocks, Eclipse, Kdevelop and others. However, few of the big boys developing on Linux use any of them but prefer to set up “Linux” as their development environment - the entire Linux system becomes the IDE. Separate IDE “programs” on Linux are a relatively new thing that have been introduced mostly to keep people that are familiar with developing on Windows happy. Consequently none of the IDE programs on Linux are as mature as Microsoft Visual Studio. An IDE on Windows is essential because Windows does not have the tools necessary for software development. “The Linux way” tends to be “one tool for one job” so rather than one monstrous program to do everything on Linux you are more likely to have a “toolkit” containing several tools, each of which does one thing well. The development tools in Linux have been used and refined over decades.
I’m not a C/C++ programmer myself, but as a musician I often see the same confusion over audio software. On Windows (and Mac) the trend is to have one huge program that does MIDI sequencing, effect processing, editing, synthesizing, mastering, score writing… On Linux we have MIDI sequencers, effect racks, audio sequencers, DAWs, audio editors, synthesizers… all as separate programs, but can also be pulled together with Jack Audio System as one incredibly powerful audio production suite.
Wow you’re a musician. I sing in a choir too. I’m seeking to develop my own app that does music recording, note recognition and other stuff and I wanted to have Audacity as a playground.
I know I can use vim, g++ and aaaall that stuff and I actually do, but I never tried for very large projects; but, for example, I am now studying the code. What should I do if I stumble on a variable or a function that I don’t know where is declared? Do I have to take all the #included files and check them one by one, and maybe the files #included in these as well and so on? (I hope I didn’t say a shameful thing)
I use “Scite” as my text editor, mostly because it has syntax highlighting for LISP which is useful when writing Nyquist plug-ins, but it has several other neat features as well, such as “Search in files”. The “Search” feature can not only look for a string in the current document, but can also search all of the files in a specified directory.
The big boys probably use grep, which is immensely powerful but I don’t think my brain is big enough to remember all the command line stuff that Linux can do.
About grep:
The big daddy text editor is Emacs . This also has the ability to search in files. I find Emacs too complicated for my needs, but a lot of programmers use it.
If Emacs is the big daddy, then the big mother is Vim, which is also widely used.
I’m not qualified to say which is better, and this is not the place for a flame war
(This is one of the more civilised discussions comparing Vim and Emacs: c++ - From Visual Studio to Vim or Emacs? - Stack Overflow )
Eclipse is cross-platform and runs natively on Linux.
If you have Linux you may not need a separate IDE, but some people prefer to have one and one thing that Linux has always done is to offer choice.
We are about 180 people working on our current project. It is about 3.5 million lines of C++ code. We work on Linux, Solaris and Windows workstations, but the target is an obscure real-time platform. A well thought out IDE can help keep such a project together.
I sing in a choir too. 
