[LAU] sfArk for Linux - git repo access

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Saturday 20 September 2014 10:51:54 jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 05:11:02 +0200,
> 
> hermann meyer <brummer- at web.de> wrote :
> > The git clone address is wrong.
> > Just use
> > git clone https://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib.git
> 
> OK, this works fine for both lib and sfArk utility.
> 
> There's an error in processing a sfArk file, though.  The problem is
> even more because these soundfounts seems very, very nice !
> 
> The soundfounts are from The Jazz Page (click download link) at:
> 
> http://www.thejazzpage.de/index1.html
> 
> Is this sfarkxtc utility the only way to go to be able to use these
> files with Qsynth ?  Is there any other way ?
> 
> 
> 
> A processing run looks like:
> 
> % sfarkxtc aCoUsTiCbAsS.sfArk aCoUsTiCbAsS.sf2
> 
>  ========================================================================
>  sfarkxtc 3.0-SNAPSHOT (using sfArkLib version: 300)
>  copyright (c) 1998-2002 melodymachine.com, distributed under the GNU
> GPL
> ========================================================================
> 
>  Uncompressing aCoUsTiCbAsS.sfArk to aCoUsTiCbAsS.sf2...
> 
> *** ERROR - Invalid length for .license.txt file (apparently
> -7976547325793271497 bytes) - This file appears to be corrupted.
> cpu time taken 0 ms
> 
> Result: Invalid compressed data (file is corrupt) errorcode 7 ***
> FAILED ***

I can confirm this behaviour when the program is compiled for 64 bits, but 
seems to work for 32 bit. Looks like a bug in the program, which has not been 
properly ported from MS VC++ to GCC/G++.

Regards,
Pedro