Steps to actually compile on Linux?

[LiamDawe]

Hi guys, Liam from GamingOnLinux here, I see there instructions haven't yet been made.

What steps do I need to do to compile it on Linux?

[jacobmischka]

This is relevant to the comment I just posted in #54. There are some (incomplete, I believe) instructions there as to which packages are required, and you just follow the Mac instructions once you have all the dependencies installed I believe.

mkdir cmbuild && cd cmbuild && cmake .. && make

[computerquip]

That would work in an ideal environment. There's trouble on Debian-based distributions at the moment because:

1. They don't package FFmpeg at all and...
2. We use the Qt X11 extras module (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtx11extras-module.html) which was either introduced in Qt 5.1 or Debian-based distributions don't package it

So libraries to worry about are:

libQt5Widgets
libQt5X11Extras
libQt5Gui
libQt5Core

libswscale
libswresample
libavutil

[LiamDawe]

Soo being on a debian distro am i basically out of luck? I can't find a way to install libswresample anywhere.

[jacobmischka]

Are you on Debian itself? If you're a casual like myself and use Ubuntu, I didn't have any issues finding it in the repositories. The only issue Ubuntu seems to be having with those libraries are x11extras, and that seems to be included in the 14.04 repos with the release this Thursday (or whenever you feel like updating I guess). Or, if any Ubuntu user feels like it, there seem to be some saucy testing debs floating around if you want to try that. I think I'll just wait the update out and see what happens then.

[LiamDawe]

I use Linux Mint 16 so I can't grab them :(

[jacobmischka]

I've never used LM, but aren't they binary compatible with their respective parent distros? As in, if you're using the Ubuntu-based version instead of LMDE, can't you just grab a deb and install it if it's not in your repos? Or add them? Or otherwise likewise with the Debian one(s)?

[LiamDawe]

Well, I installed it from that link but it still fails on a missing Libswresample :(

[computerquip]

liamdawe, could I get more output?

Also, realize that this software is still very much in pre-alpha stage. Unless you plan on developing, I wouldn't expect too much yet. Some things work but a lot is unfinished or not even started yet.

If you would like, there's an IRC channel to get more real-time help in.

[computerquip]

I'm going to close this for now since help specific to your distro is unfortunately limited due to either missing or out of date packages. To fix the issue, you'd either have to install from source or download from a third-party package maintainer. Help with this should be taken to their respective forums (Qt forums or FFmpeg forums).

If you believe there is something wrong with the compilation process with obs-studio, you can re-open or submit a new bug.

[Xaymar]

For debian based systems, one could use deb-multimedia, which provides the required packages from ffmpeg. However, i haven't managed to compile on debian so far, so i don't know if they work.

[computerquip]

The packages their (deb-mutimedia) for Wheezy and below are too old. If you're using testing or unstable, that should be fine.