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Build Ardour for Linux

OS : Antix Linux (a Debian Based Distro without Systemd)

Install Dependencies

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sudo apt install build-essential git libboost-all-dev gcc g++ pkg-config \
libasound2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libsndfile1-dev libarchive-dev \
liblo-dev libtag1-dev vamp-plugin-sdk librubberband-dev libfftw3-dev \
libaubio-dev libxml2-dev libsamplerate0-dev lv2-dev libserd-dev libsord-dev \
libsratom-dev liblilv-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libogg-dev \
libcppunit-dev libwebsockets-dev libusb-dev libsuil-dev libdbus-1-dev xjadeo \
libusb-1.0-0-dev libreadline-dev libpangomm-1.4-dev python3 liblrdf0-dev \
libraptor2-dev python-is-python3

Clone git repo

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git clone https://github.com/Ardour/ardour.git

Switch Branch to Latest Release Version

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cd ardour
git checkout release/8.12

Build

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./waf configure --cxx11 --optimize &&
./waf -j `nproc` &&
./waf install

Done

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