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@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -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 -<http://lv2plug.in> 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 <http://lv2plug.in/trac/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard> 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 |