Building Element
A simple guide on building Element with meson. Pease see mesonbuild.com for how to install meson on your platform.
Debian/Ubuntu
Dependencies
The following packages are needed…
sudo apt-get install python git build-essential pkg-config libboost-dev libfreetype6-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev libxcomposite-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev lv2-dev liblilv-dev libsuil-dev ladspa-sdk libcurl4-openssl-dev fonts-roboto clang clang++
Compiling
meson setup build
meson compile -C build
If meson gives errors about missing packages, namely the LV2 related ones, then you might need to also setup subprojects.
meson subprojects update --reset
Installing
sudo meson install -C build
sudo ldconfig
Arch Linux
Install these packages, then run the meson
commands described above.
sudo pacman -S git lilv suil lv2 ladspa boost ttf-mswin10
Mac OSX
Dependencies
brew install boost
Build
BOOST_ROOT="/usr/local/include" meson setup \
--native-file="meson/subs.ini" \
--native-file="meson/osx.ini" \
build
meson compile -C build
This will make an app bundle somwhere in the build
dir. Run it…
open $(find build -name "Element.app")
Windows (MSVC)
meson setup --native-file="meson/subs.ini" --native-file="meson/msvc.ini" build
meson compile -C build
After this, you should have build/element.exe
. If it complains about missing boost
and vstsdk paths, copy the msvc.ini
, edit the paths, then use it in meson setup
.