Compiling Supercollider 3.5 on Ubuntu Precise

kijjaz · Last edited by kijjaz on Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:14 pm; edited 1 time in total

( I firstly posted it on http://kijjaz.net/?p=174 )

Get the source. Now Supercollider's source at sourceforge.net is at version 3.5-rc3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source

Prepare required packages:
Add this PPA repository: https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/+archive/ppa
or use command
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:supercollider/ppa && sudo apt-get update
Then...
$ sudo apt-get build-dep supercollider
$ sudo apt-get install cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev emacs libqt4-dev

Unpack the source package.

Compile:
$ cmake -DSC_ED=on
$ make
$ sudo make install

Since supercollider source code was designed to support gedit 2, in Ubuntu Precise running gedit 3, we have to copy or symlink two files for the plugin to work in gedit:
$ mkdir ~/.local/share/gedit
$ mkdir ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins
$ cp /usr/local/lib/gedit/plugins/supercollider.* ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins

Trying in out:
$ sclang
sclang: error while loading shared libraries: libscsynth.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So now I will cheat a bit ... :
$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libscsynth.so.1 /usr/lib

Open gedit --> (menu) Edit --> Preferences --> (Tab) Plugins --> check at SuperCollider.
NOW I'M READY TO ROCK!

audiodef · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:37 am Post subject:

I had the same libscsynth problem. Since I have no plans to use Wii or bluetooth, I ran ./configure -DSC_WII=off and that took care of it.

kijjaz · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:15 pm Post subject:

(edited: must add Supercollider PPA before apt-get build-dep supercollider)

kijjaz · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:43 am Post subject:

and now SuperCollider 3.5 is released!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.0

audiodef · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:18 am Post subject:

Thanks for the update. Cool