LV2 === LV2 is a plugin standard for audio systems. It defines a minimal yet extensible C API for plugin code and a format for plugin "bundles". See for more information. This package contains specifications (a C header and/or a schema in Turtle), documentation generation tools, and example plugins. Building and installation requires only Python 2.6 and, optionally, Doxygen. Installation ------------ A typical build looks something like this: ./waf configure --prefix /foo ./waf sudo ./waf install or, for packaging: DESTDIR=/foo/lv2 ./waf install For help on the various options available, run: ./waf --help The bundle installation directory can be set with the --lv2-dir option, e.g.: ./waf configure --lv2-dir /foo/lib/lv2 Similarly, --lv2-user will install to the user LV2 directory (e.g. ~/.lv2). Packaging --------- Specification bundles are both a build and run time dependency of programs that use LV2. Programs expect their data to be available somewhere in LV2_PATH. See for details on the standard installation paths. Do not split up LV2 bundles, they must remain self-contained. This is a requirement, not a suggestion, and it supercedes any rules your distribution may have which were likely designed for libraries (note LV2 specifications are just text, not libraries). You are free to link or copy things anywhere, but under no circumstances should an incomplete part of a bundle be installed. Other than that, things may be split up in any way. In particular it is a good idea to split specifications, tools, and plugins into separate packages. Header Installation ------------------- The install stage installs symbolic links to headers in bundles. This is to support universal C includes that do not change from system to system. For example, the URID extension's header can always be included like so: #include "lv2/lv2plug.in/ns/ext/urid/urid.h" Note that some specification headers themselves have such include lines, which must not be modified. The details of how this is achieved are unimportant and may be tailored to particular systems. The requirement is simply that this style of include must work for any header in a specification. If you are having problems with symbolic links for whatever reason, configure with the --copy-headers option, which will make copies instead. Documentation ------------- Configuring with the --docs option will build the documentation for all the included specifications if Doxygen is available. For example: ./waf configure --docs ./waf