= Build =

This page lists the instructions to build the aubio library and tools. See the [wiki:Download Download] page to fetch the latest version of pre-compiled packages and source code.

As much as possible, using the [source:aubio latest source code] version should be preferred to using the latest release.

== Dependencies ==

aubio is written in C. The current version of aubio depends on: 

 - [http://www.mega-nerdz.com/libsndfile libsndfile], the sound file access library from Erik de Castro Lopo
 - [http://www.mega-nerdz.com/libsamplerate libsamplerate], the re-sampling library, also from Erik
 - [http://fftw.org FFTW], the Fastest Fourier Transform of the West, from the Steven G. Johnson et al. at MIT

The following dependencies are optional:

 - [http://jackit.sf.net JACK], Jack Audio Connection Kit, for real-time audio input/output on linux and macosx
 - [http://www.alsa-project.org ALSA], for midi output from aubionotes
 - [http://www.swig.org Swig], to build modules for languages supported by SWIG (perl, java and many more)
 - [http://python.org Python], to build and use the python scripts provided in the [source:aubio/python python directory].

'''Note''': on a debian system, the required dependencies can be obtained using:
{{{
# apt-get build-dep aubio
}}}

== Compiling ==

Once you have all the dependencies installed, you should be able to run the following from within the aubio source directory:
{{{
./bootstrap # optional from a release tarball
./configure
make
}}}

Several configurations options are available. See:
{{{
./configure --help
}}}

If you need to install aubio on your system, run the following as root:
{{{
make install
}}}