Preparing the source tree

If you just cloned the git repository, make sure you also cloned the submodules, which you can do using:

$ git submodule update --init

Building

The required build dependencies are: (devel packages of these)

On Debian and Ubuntu, use these commands as root to install all build dependencies:

apt-get install \
  python3-pyqt5 pyqt5-dev-tools \
  qtchooser qttools5-dev-tools

To build RaySession, simply run as usual:

make

Depending of the distribution you might need to use the LRELEASE variable to build. If you don't have 'lrelease' executable but 'lrelease-qt5' use:

make LRELEASE=lrelease-qt5

To install RaySession, simply run as usual:

make install

Packagers can make use of the 'PREFIX' and 'DESTDIR' variable during install, like this:

make install PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=./test-dir

To uninstall RaySession, run:

make uninstall

You can run RaySession without install, by using:

./src/bin/raysession

To run it, you'll additionally need:

On a debian-based operating system you can install them all using:

sudo apt install python3-liblo python3-pyqt5.qtsvg

IMPORTANT: since python 3.11, because pyliblo has been totally abandonned by Dominic Sacre, for liblo you need to use the following fork:

https://github.com/gesellkammer/pyliblo3

Simply install it with:

python3 -m pip install pyliblo3