Re: [LAU] Compiling dssi-vst-master: -lz missing

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:42:30 -0400, David Santamauro wrote: Perhaps the OP should mention what source and what distro was used and post the original Error message. The OP just mentioned that an "Ubuntu page" was found, but the mailer claims to be x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. It seems to be that zlib headers are not needed or they are needed, but already a dependency of a dependency that is mentioned. Upstream: https://github.com/falkTX/dssi-vst/blob/master/README "Build etc --------- To build dssi-vst, you will need: * The DSSI header. * Wine 0.9.5 or newer and its development tools -- http://www.winehq.com/ * Steve Harris's liblo "Lite OSC" library -- http://liblo.sf.net/ -- version 0.9 or newer. * OPTIONALLY the VST SDK headers. The URL for downloading these seems to change every week, but at the time of writing it is: http://www.steinberg.de/331+M54a708de802.html" Ubuntu: 32-bit, seemingly not intended for 64-bit $ wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/dssi-vst_0.9.2-1ubuntu… $ tar xJf dssi-vst_0.9.2-1ubuntu6.debian.tar.xz $ grep Build debian/control Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), quilt (>= 0.46-7~), dssi-dev, wine1.4-dev | wine-dev, liblo-dev, libasound2-dev, libjack-dev, pkg-config Arch User Repository: 32-bit and 64-bit Ok, for Arch zlib is from core, so it must not be mentioned, but at least lib32-zlib isn't from core, so it should be mentioned, if it would be needed. $ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/dssi-vst-git.tar.gz $ tar xzf dssi-vst-git.tar.gz $ grep depends dssi-vst-git/PKGBUILD depends=("wine" "liblo" "jack") depends+=("lib32-jack") makedepends=("git") Debian removed it, but the bug seems to be fixed: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dssi-vst