I had originally put in a request to possibly offer Polyphone in a automatically generated continuous release AppImage as some Linux programs offer, but there are no plans currently to provide this.
Therefore, I have been trying to figure how to compile a new version of Polyphone because my repo only offers version 2.2.0 I am not experienced with compiling, I have made some progress but still cannot seem to generate a working version of Polyphone and I was wonsering if anyone would be able to help?
To start, I used the Ubuntu based instructions provided on this website because it is the closest to Debian. DEPENDENCIES A possible issue is the following dependencies required are either slightly different or not available. qt5-default (not available in my repo, have read that this is not used any longer? I downloaded the other qt dependencies that people mentioned in place of what this provides) libstk0-dev (did not have this specific version in my repo)
libstk-dev (only this version which says 4.6.2)
COMPILING
When trying to compile
I used the default settings in the "polyphone.pro" fileDEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTAUDIO
#DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTMIDI
#DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_STKit takes a while so it is compiling but eventually it shows the following error. make: /usr/lib/qt5/bin/lrelease: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:2363: .qm/polyphone_ca.qm] Error 127Figured because my libstk file might not be the same as needed, I also tried compiling again with what I read in instructions about uncommenting the STK option in the "polyphone.pro" file
DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTAUDIO
#DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_RTMIDI
DEFINES += USE_LOCAL_STKdoes same thing but show a different "Makefile:" number
make: /usr/lib/qt5/bin/lrelease: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:2398: .qm/polyphone_ca.qm] Error 127If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thank You
P.S.
Does compiling with the instructions from the manual create a "standalone" kind of version?
Is it possible to generate a ".deb" file when compling, so can install like a .deb based program?
By any chance does anyone know what these different "Makefile:" numbers & Error 127 could mean?
Has anyone ever compiled for Debian based systems, could any of the dependencies I mentioned cause this error?