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Using Qt Creator to build Polyphone

Use these instructions to know how to build Polyphone with Qt Creator. It is assumed you already have on your computer Qt Creator installed with the Qt framework, a compiler and the necessary dependencies to build Polyphone (see related pages for this).

Prerequisite

The following elements are required:

• a C++ compiler (VC++, Clang, GCC, …),
• Qt Creator with its framework,
• Polyphone dependencies.

The instructions for installing them are dependent on the OS you are using, see the related documentation pages for this.

Build Polyphone

Copy the sources

Get Polyphone sources from here  or from GitHub .

Open and configure the project

First, open the file polyphone.pro and edit it to possibly use the distributed versions for rtaudio, rtmidi and stk if your OS doesn't provide them. Uncomment the following lines by removing the leading ‘#’:

DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTAUDIO
DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTMIDI
DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_STK

You can skip these modifications if you want to use libraries already installed in your computer (make sure you have them!).

Start Qt Creator and open the file polyphone.pro.

Then configure the project.

Run qmake and build the project

Go in the menu Build and choose the item Run qmake.

qmake run is finished when the proceeding bar on the bottom right corner has reached the 100% green.

In the section Project in the left column, then in the section Build&Run, select the build configuration (Release is preferred).

Finally, click on the action Build project Polyphone in the menu Build. During the project build you should see warnings but no errors.

Now you should have the executable polyphone either in the RELEASE or DEBUG subfolder of the source code, depending on your choice in QtCreator build configuration.

Troubleshooting

See this topic if you need more information or for getting some help.

Special thanks to Tomotello for this article.