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.. _requirements:

Requirements
============

While aubio can be built without any external dependencies, we **recommend** to
use at least some of the following libraries.

Platform notes
--------------

On all platforms, you will need to have installed:

 - a compiler (gcc, clang, msvc, ...)
 - python (any version >= 2.7, including 3.x)
 - a terminal to run command lines in

Linux
.....

The following `External libraries`_ will be used if found: `libav`_,
`libsamplerate`_, `libsndfile`_, `libfftw3`_.

macOS
.....

The following system frameworks will be used on Mac OS X systems:

  - `Accelerate <https://developer.apple.com/reference/accelerate>`_ to compute
    FFTs and other vectorized operations optimally.

  - `CoreAudio <https://developer.apple.com/reference/coreaudio>`_ and
    `AudioToolbox <https://developer.apple.com/reference/audiotoolbox>`_ to
    decode audio from files and network streams.

.. note::

  To build a fat binary for both ``i386`` and ``x86_64``, use ``./waf configure
  --enable-fat``.

The following `External libraries`_ will also be checked: `libav`_,
`libsamplerate`_, `libsndfile`_, `libfftw3`_.

Windows
.......

To use a specific version of the compiler, ``--msvc_version``. To build for a
specific architecture, use ``--msvc_target``. For instance, to build aubio
for ``x86`` using ``msvc 12.0``, use:

.. code:: bash

    waf configure --msvc_version='msvc 12.0' --msvc_target='x86'


The following `External libraries`_ will be used if found: `libav`_,
`libsamplerate`_, `libsndfile`_, `libfftw3`_.

iOS
...

The following system frameworks will be used on iOS and iOS Simulator.

  - `Accelerate <https://developer.apple.com/reference/accelerate>`_ to compute
    FFTs and other vectorized operations optimally.

  - `CoreAudio <https://developer.apple.com/reference/coreaudio>`_ and
    `AudioToolbox <https://developer.apple.com/reference/audiotoolbox>`_ to
    decode audio from files and network streams.

To build aubio for iOS, configure with ``--with-target-platform=ios``. For the
iOS Simulator, use ``--with-target-platform=iosimulator`` instead.

By default, aubio is built with the following flags on iOS:

.. code:: bash

    CFLAGS="-fembed-bitcode -arch arm64 -arch armv7 -arch armv7s -miphoneos-version-min=6.1"

and on iOS Simulator:

.. code::

    CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -mios-simulator-version-min=6.1"

Set ``CFLAGS`` and ``LINKFLAGS`` to change these default values, or edit
``wscript`` directly.

Build options
-------------

Some additional options can be passed to the configure step. For the complete
list of options, run:

.. code:: bash

    $ ./waf configure --help

Double precision
................

To compile aubio in double precision mode, configure with ``--enable-double``.

To compile aubio in single precision mode, use ``--disable-double`` (default).

Fat binary
..........

To build a fat binary on Mac OS platforms, configure with ``--enable-fat``.

External libraries
------------------

External libraries are checked for using ``pkg-config``. Set the
``PKG_CONFIG_PATH`` environment variable if you have them installed in an
unusual location.


.. note::

    If ``pkg-config`` is not found in ``PATH``, the configure step will
    succeed, but none of the external libraries will be used.

libav
.....

  `libav.org <https://libav.org/>`_, open source audio and video processing
  tools.

If all of the following libraries are found, they will be used to compile
``aubio_source_avcodec``. so that ``aubio_source`` will be able to decode audio
from all formats supported by `libav
<https://libav.org/documentation/general.html#Audio-Codecs>`_.

* libavcodec
* libavformat
* libavutil
* libavresample

To enable this option, configure with ``--enable-avcodec``. The build will then
failed if the required libraries are not found. To disable this option,
configure with ``--disable-avcodec``


libsndfile
..........

  `libsndfile <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>`_, a C library for reading
  and writing sampled sound files.

With libsndfile built in, ``aubio_source_sndfile`` will be built in and used by
``aubio_source``.

To enable this option, configure with ``--enable-sndfile``. The build will then
fail if the required library is not found. To disable this option, configure
with ``--disable-sndfile``

libsamplerate
.............

  `libsamplerate <http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/>`_, a sample rate converter for
  audio.

With libsamplerate built in, ``aubio_source_sndfile`` will support resampling,
and ``aubio_resample`` will be fully functional.

To enable this option, configure with ``--enable-samplerate``. The build will
then fail if the required library is not found. To disable this option,
configure with ``--disable-samplerate``

libfftw3
........

  `FFTW <http://fftw.org/>`_, a C subroutine for computing the discrete Fourier
  transform

With libfftw3 built in, ``aubio_fft`` will use `FFTW <http://fftw.org>`_ to
compute Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), allowing aubio to compute FFT on length
that are not a power of 2.

To enable this option, configure with ``--enable-fftw3``. The build will
then fail if the required library is not found. To disable this option,
configure with ``--disable-fftw3``

External tools
--------------

If the following tools are found, additional documentations are built:

 - `doxygen <http://doxygen.org>`_ to build the `API documentation`.
 - `txt2man <https://github.com/mvertes/txt2man>`_ to build the :ref:`manpages`

These tools are searched for in the current ``PATH`` environment variable.
By default, the documentation is built only if the tools are found.

To disable the documentation, configure with ``--disable-docs``. To build with
the documentation, configure with ``--enable-docs``.