Re: [Nyquist-users] compiling nyquist and mailing list issues

[Raymond M. <la...@gm...>]

On October 2, 2010 06:50:29 pm David wrote:
> I got past the 'asound' problem, seems you need to have the
> "developer" version of ALSA  installed.
> 
> But now I'm getting another error, and it doesn't look like it's due
> to a missing package.
> 
> portaudio/pa_unix/pa_unix_hostapis.o:(.data+0x0): undefined reference
> to `PaAlsa_Initialize'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Incorrect libraries, wrong version of PortAudio, etc.

I already went through this myself and reported it in some posting, not sure 
where/when now.

> Here's a list of the packages I've had to install so far. As Raymond
> says, they should be standard in most Linux distros, but they weren't
> included in mine. If someone's using a distro aimed at small netbooks
> or end-users (as opposed to developers), they might not be included.
> 
> - gcc
> - g++
> - automake
> - libtool
> - libasound2-dev

Aside from the ALSA part, these are standard tools on Linux for doing 
development. The question is whether you have your system setup for it or not. 
A vanilla install of one distro for an end user is not necessarily intended 
for software development immediately. Since you are trying to use Nyquist, 
which does not come in binaries, then these are absolutely normal requirements 
that you have to fulfill.

And you will not have the development tools installed on a netbook or even a 
regular system by default unless you choose the option appropriately on 
install of Linux or set this up yourself. That is just the way it is and is 
completely expected by anyone doing software development or even just to 
compile a binary.

Raymond