Building from Source (with Meson) [RECOMMENDED]

• Prerequisites

• Dependencies

• Building

Prerequisites

To build Tizonia using the Meson build system, you need at least Meson ‘>=0.53.0’.

$ sudo -H pip3 install meson --upgrade

Ninja is the recommended Meson backend.

$ sudo apt-get install ninja-build

Dependencies

To install all the development dependencies, the tizonia-dev-build tool is the recommended way. This script lives under the tools directory and internally maintains an up-to-date list of all the packages that are required in a Debian-compatible system to build Tizonia from source.

NOTE: The following command installs Mopidy’s ‘libspotify-dev’ package, and the ‘gmusicapi’, ‘soundcloud’, ‘pafy’ and ‘youtube-dl’ Python PIP packages, plus a few other necessary debian packages.

# Setup the following environment variables
$ export TIZONIA_REPO_DIR=/path/to/tizonia/repo # (e.g. /home/user/tizonia-openmax-il)
$ export TIZONIA_INSTALL_DIR=/path/to/install/dir # (e.g. /usr or /home/user/temp)
$ export PATH=$TIZONIA_REPO_DIR/tools:$PATH

# Set the PYTHONPATH accordingly (replace X to match the python version on your system)
$ export PYTHONPATH=$TIZONIA_INSTALL_DIR/lib/python3.X/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

# Now install everything that is required to build Tizonia from source (Debian derivative assumed)
$ tizonia-dev-build --deps

Building

Building Tizonia with Meson is easy.

First, declare flags you wish (in CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS and FCFLAGS). Then invoke meson with the various parameters you might want to specify, e.g:

$ meson --buildtype=plain --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --includedir=/usr/include --datadir=/usr/share \
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --localedir=/usr/share/locale \
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --wrap-mode=nodownload \
--auto-features=enabled . build

NOTE: some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) will use /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on some architectures, use your best judgement.

If you wish to set options (as per meson_options.txt), you can pass them with -D to the configuration line.

Then build with:

$ ninja -v -j1 -C build

NOTE: -j1 is recommended as it reduces the memory requirements during compilation.

And install with:

$ DESTDIR=<mydir> /usr/bin/ninja install -v -j1 -C build

On OSX things are still experimental. You’ll have to install the required dependencies with brew and therefore use /usr/local as prefix and adjust everything else accordingly. Also you will have to pass -Dpkg_config_path=/usr/local/lib and -Dcmake_prefix_path=/usr/local/lib, plus other modifications.