On 06-12-2021 22:34, Nicola Orrù via Dng wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I remember using debootstrap a long time ago and
> it wasn't exactly fun, or trivial. I am looking at Howtos and It does
> sound like an awful lot of work just to build a LV2 audio plugin from
> source.
>
> Just to clarify again, the plugin I am building is only distributed as
> source code, no binaries provided and no distro packages of any kind.
> I don't need a .deb package of this software, just the output
> binaries, nor I intend to make one.
>
> Here's the software if anyone fancies a play:
>
> https://github.com/brummer10/Fluida.lv2
>
>
>> Dependency
>>
>> libcairo2-dev
>> libx11-dev
>> lv2-dev
>> libfluidsynth-dev
>
> For now I've hacked it by force installing iibsystemd-dev and
> libfluidsynth-dev, building the plugin, and then uninstalling them. I
> wonder if it could be easier to just spin a vanilla Debian system in a
> VM next time.
>
> The other alternative I can think of would be to just install the libs
> from source and comment out the systemd bits. Upgrading sounds painful
> though.
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
>
>
>
I can give it a try building it in a Debian docker container with all
dependencies and copy the binaries to the local file system.
That would be easier then a complete VM for a few dependencies.

Grtz.

Nick