No MidiShareLight

[Ivan M]

Hello,

I want to compile the GuidoLib with the MIDI support, but after doing

cmake cmake/ -DMIDIEXPORT=yes
make

it gives my an error: "cannot find -lmidisharelight". I've seen that in the
midisharelight folder there's only a folder for win32 and another for MacOS.
Is MIDI export supported in Linux? If it is, how can I solve this problem?

I am using the last version of the git repository as of 22/7/2012. My
operating system is Ubuntu 12.04.

Thank you

[Ivan M]

Ok, didn't see the README file:

Supporting MIDI export on linux:

you must get the midishare source code:
git://midishare.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/midishare/midishare
midisharelight is a recent addition to the project and for the moment, it is
only
available from the 'dev' branch. It is located at the project root folder.
midisharelight is cmake based:

cd midisharelight/cmake
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
make
sudo make install

Althought I'm now having a bad time trying to compile this one library.

Sorry!

[Dominique Fober]

Althought I'm now having a bad time trying to compile this one library.

Can you tell me the kind of "bad time" you have to compile?

Dom

[Ivan M]

Now I'm getting different problems with MidiShare, depending if i'm
downloading it directly from sourceforge (the supposed stable release) or i'm
getting it through git.

What I do first is going to the Midishare folder/src/linux . Then I try to do
the typical

./configure
make
make install

• When using the stable release, i get a syntax error in the ./configure step ( "(" unexpected)

• When using the git downloaded version first I do ./configure step, it seems to go well, and it warns me that I should have the linux kernel code installed prior to compile the midishare module. But then in the Make step, i get errors of some undeclared types, like_ kLev0, sysDate,evDate, etc..
  I've already installed the linux kernel source, first through synaptic (there
  are a lot of packages that say linux-source, so I installed them all..) and I
  also tried with the line _sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

I don't know whether this is a programming error or I should have some header
installed somewhere that I don't have

I supose that since guidolib needs Midishare, this is also a guidolib problem.

Thank you.

[Dominique Fober]

I supose that since guidolib needs Midishare, this is also a guidolib
problem.

MidiShare is not required for the guidolib, only the MidiShareLight part (that
should compile without problem).
--
Dom

[Ivan M]

But the readme says that if you want midi export in Linux then you have to
download and compile Midishare

[Dominique Fober]

It means that the readme is not clear enough. Sorry for that. It talks about
downloading midishare and about compiling midisharelight (see below):

   Supporting MIDI export on linux:
   -------------------------------
   you must get the midishare source code:
       git://midishare.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/midishare/midishare 
   midisharelight is a recent addition to the project and for the moment, it is only
   available from the 'dev' branch. It is located at the project root folder.
   midisharelight is cmake based:
    > cd midisharelight/cmake
    > cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
    > make
    > sudo make install

I'll change that to clarify.

[Ivan M]

Finally I understood what I was doing wrong. I downloaded midishare from the
repository but I didn't find the midisharelight folder, because I wasn't
switching to the dev bransh with

$ git checkout branch

After I ran cmake in this folder everything went well.

Thank you.

[Ivan M]

I meant

$ git checkout dev

the dev branch.