el Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:39:26 -0400 "S. Massy" <smassy(a)sympatico.ca> escribió: hello, csound used to be fairly easy to compile, but that was long time ago. it's true that compiling canonical csound has been problematic lately. my experience in the last 2 years has been: 1) for some time i used istvan varga's sources. i do have Xwindows installed but i didn't have fltk at that time. there was no configure or anything, so i just had to edit the Makefile by hand commenting out all references to fltk. i'm not a programmer, i guess my solution was rather crude, but it worked. once, after a fresh build of linux from scratch, i tried to compile csound before installing X and i had to do similar trimmings in the Makefile. it worked, it was then that i realized that csound depends on X more than i could have suspected. 2) now i'm using canonical again. (after a long interchange of harsh emails between istvan and the "official" developers, he definitely disappeared from the scene, and his sources and binaries with him). i even installed fltk to be able to see these knobs and sliders everyone's hollering about. but ffitch's makefile didn't work for me, only when steven yi posted a modified makefile to the csound list (20030704) i was successful. the binaries also work, but with my binaries i get about 10-15% faster performance. i'm talking about csound 4.23f04 at sourceforge. good luck, lj