[LAU] QJackCtl and JACK MIDI

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 01 January 2008 14:51, David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 31 December 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Monday 31 December 2007 21:43, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > > David Baron wrote:
> > > > Current Debian Sid jack version do not yet support -X so you need
> > > > aseq2jackmidi to use it. Or else you must compile jack from more
> > > > recent versions.
> > > >
> > > > The URL for the alsaseq bridge is on a recent post to LUA. If you
> > > > like, I can simply send you the source file off list. There is no
> > > > make, simply compile as instructed in the program comments!
> > >
> > > Thanks, David. I roused myself to search the archives and found the
> > > sources. Built it, ran it, it shows up in the MIDI tab in QJackCtl. So
> > > far, so good. I'll check out Lars' AZR3 port asap.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > dp
> >
> > Hi Dave. Would you care to share the procedure in compiling it? I too
> > would like to try Azr3. I 've looked at alsaseq2jackmidi.c, but don't see
> > what I need to do to compile it, then run it.
> >
> > Call me clueless if you like.
>
> Look at the set of comments at the start of the code
> /*********************************
> ** these are comments            *
> **********************************/
>
> Copy the second compile line shown into a terminal at let it rip.

Hi David. Thanks for the help. I also looked back on a reply from Dave 
Phillips, which said almost the same.

I now have Azr3 running, and playing ok on Fedora 8. Azr3 wouldn't compile on 
Debian Etch, but I'll try on my Lenny install. I know it compiles on Sid, as 
Dave Phillips confirmed it, but Sid's a bit too near to the edge for me. 

Some time later, and dependency problems on Lenny. An apt-get update/apt-get 
get dist-upgrade shows some 292MB of updates, so It's going to be at least 
18hrs on dialup before I can try the Azr3 compile again. 2 of the dep 
complaints were libgtkmm, and liblash, and I see they are are being upgraded. 
I tried to install the devel packages for these, but probably because there 
are are new versions of these packages waiting to be installed, the devel 
versions of the current installed packages are no longer available, and is 
why apt-get was complaining it couldn't find them.

Being on dialup, I'm used to being very patient, so I'll see how it goes.

I also have Archlinux installed on the same machine, and the updates to the 
latest package versions are quite impressive. I'll have a quick look, and see 
if Azr3 will run on that without too many problems.

Thanks as always for the help that comes from the folks on the list.

Nigel.