Compilation instructions?

[PaulBatchelor]

I don't see any compilation instructions anywhere. How does one compile this, and what are the dependencies?

[boomlinde]

Hi Paul,
This follows a typical Go workflow. Assuming that you have go (1.4 or newer) installed:

1. Set up the GOPATH environment variable to e.g. /home/username/devel/go
2. Issue go get github.com/boomlinde/acidforth. This will download and build the package along with its Go dependencies into the GOPATH directory tree. Once built, the acidforth binary can be found in $GOPATH/bin

The project depends on two other Go packages, code.google.com/p/portaudio-go/portaudio and github.com/rakyll/portmidi. These require the portaudio and portmidi libraries and headers respectively as they will create C bindings with pkg-config portaudio-2.0 and -lportmidi. These libraries are not automatically downloaded. On the development system (OSX 10.10.5) I got these via the brew package manager.

Go is quite a hack when it comes to linking to external libraries, see https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/. Chances are that you will have to tweak the cgo magic comments to get them to build for a specific system.

I'll add this information to the README some time this week, but let me know if you need assistance with a particular operating system and I can give it a try in a VM. My next goal is to provide binaries for Windows.

[boomlinde]

Build instructions added to the README in 21c8130