Most distributions do not package all of Saucedacity's dependencies (yet). wxWidgets 3.1 is required for building Saucedacity but many distributions only package wxWidgets 3.0. PortMidi and PortSMF are required for MIDI support but some distributions do not package PortSMF (Saucedacity can still build without MIDI support). libsbsms is an optional dependency used for time stretching that is not available in many Linux distribution package managers either. Optionally, vcpkg can be used to build dependencies from source which may be helpful if your distribution is missing some packages.
Installing ccache and ninja-build is highly recommended for faster builds but not required. CMake will automatically use ccache if it is installed.
To install Saucedacity's dependencies, run:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libflac++-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libid3tag0-dev libjack-dev liblilv-dev libmad0-dev libmp3lame-dev libogg-dev libpng-dev portaudio19-dev libportmidi-dev libportsmf-dev libserd-dev libsndfile1-dev libsord-dev libsoundtouch-dev libsoxr-dev libsuil-dev libtwolame-dev vamp-plugin-sdk libvorbis-dev lv2-dev zlib1g-dev cmake ninja-build libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev liblzma-dev libsqlite3-dev
wxWidgets 3.1 is required but not packaged in Debian or Ubuntu. Refer
to the
wxWidgets documentation
for how to install it from source code. The above package list
includes wxWidgets' build dependencies. If you install wxWidgets
somewhere other than the default /usr/local, you need to set the
WX_CONFIG environment variable to the location of the wx-config
script installed by wxWidgets to get CMake to find wxWidgets 3.1. For
example, if you installed wxWidgets to /home/user/local:
export WX_CONFIG=/home/user/local/bin/wx-config
First, if you want to build Saucedacity with FFmpeg support, enable the
RPM Fusion free repository if you do not
have enabled already. The nonfree RPM Fusion repository is not
required. If you do not mind building without FFmpeg support,
RPM Fusion is not required and this first step can be skipped (also
remove ffmpeg-devel from the end of the package list in the second
step below).
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Then install Saucedacity's dependencies:
sudo dnf install alsa-lib-devel cmake expat-devel flac-devel gcc-g++ gettext-devel lame-devel libid3tag-devel libmad-devel libogg-devel libsndfile-devel libvorbis-devel lilv-devel lv2-devel portaudio-devel portmidi-devel serd-devel sord-devel soundtouch-devel soxr-devel sqlite-devel sratom-devel suil-devel taglib-devel twolame-devel vamp-plugin-sdk-devel wxGTK-devel zlib-devel ccache ninja-build git ffmpeg-devel
If you use a high DPI screen, the wxWidgets 3.1.4 package in Fedora does
not work well for that. You can compile wxWidgets 3.1.5 instead of using
the Fedora package. Refer to the
wxWidgets documentation
for details. If you install wxWidgets somewhere other than the default
/usr/local, you need to set the WX_CONFIG environment variable to
the location of the wx-config script installed by wxWidgets to get
CMake to find wxWidgets 3.1. For example, if you installed wxWidgets to
/home/user/local:
export WX_CONFIG=/home/user/local/bin/wx-config
Install wxgtk3-dev-light with your AUR helper of choice, for example:
paru -S wxgtk3-dev-light
CMake requires explicitly specifying the path to the wx-config script from this AUR package:
export WX_CONFIG=/usr/bin/wx-config-gtk3-3.1
Install the rest of the build dependencies from the main Arch repository:
sudo pacman -S cmake ninja ccache expat gcc-libs gdk-pixbuf2 glibc flac gtk3 glib2 libid3tag lilv libmad libogg portaudio portmidi libsndfile libsoxr suil twolame vamp-plugin-sdk libvorbis soundtouch ffmpeg
TODO: add portsmf and sbsms to this package list when those packages are updated.
Optionally, you can build dependencies from source using vcpkg, with the
exception of wxWidgets due to
bugs in vcpkg's wxwidgets package.
vcpkg is not set up to build GTK or GLib either. To use vcpkg for
dependencies, pass -D VCPKG=ON to the CMake configure command. You will need
nasm installed to build ffmpeg from vcpkg which you can
install from your distribution's package manager. If you use vcpkg, you need to
set the WX_CONFIG environment variable to the path of the wx-config script
installed by wxWidgets. For example, if you installed wxWidgets to /usr/local:
export WX_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/wx-config
If you switch between system packages and vcpkg, you may need to delete
CMakeCache.txt inside your CMake build directory.
Install Microsoft Visual Studio with the Desktop development with C++ installation option.
Installing sccache is highly recommended for faster builds but not required. CMake will automatically use sccache if you have it installed. You can install it from Chocolatey:
choco install sccache
Alternatively, if you have a Rust toolchain installed, you can build sccache from source:
cargo install sccache
Saucedacity's dependencies will be built automatically with vcpkg when configuring
CMake. You can turn off vcpkg by passing -D VCPKG=OFF to the CMake
configuration command, but then it is up to you to install all of Saucedacity's
dependencies.
Note that building the dependencies requires 10 GB of storage space.
Install the Clang C++ compiler and macOS SDK from the Xcode command line tools. If you have the Xcode IDE installed, you already have the command line tools too. To install the Xcode command line tools without the Xcode IDE, launch the Terminal application, and type the following command:
xcode-select --install
Click "Install" on the software update popup window that will appear and wait for the download and installation to finish.
You will also need to install a few build tools and dependencies, which can be installed from Homebrew:
brew install cmake ccache ninja nasm wxwidgets
The rest of the dependencies will be built automatically with vcpkg when
configuring CMake. You turn off vcpkg by passing -D VCPKG=OFF to the CMake
configuration command, but then it is up to you to install all of Saucedacity's
dependencies.
On Windows, run the commands below from the x64 Native Tools Command Prompt. For other operating systems, run them from a normal shell.
First, download the Saucedacity source code:
git clone https://github.com/saucedacity/saucedacity.git
cd saucedacity
Then, configure CMake. This will take a long time the first time on macOS and
Windows (or if you use -D VCPKG=ON on Linux) because vcpkg will compile
itself, then compile Saucedacity's dependencies. -G Ninja is recommended for
faster builds but not required. Add -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/path to
change the installation path from the default /usr/local:
cmake -G Ninja -S . -B build
Build Saucedacity:
cmake --build build
Run Saucedacity:
build/bin/Debug/aucedacity
Optionally, install Saucedacity:
cmake --install build
- VCPKG (ON|OFF): whether to use dependencies from vcpkg. ON by default for Windows and macOS; OFF by default for Linux.
- VCPKG_ROOT (file path): path to vcpkg Git repository, defaults to using the vcpkg submodule in the Saucedacity repository
- SCCACHE (ON|OFF): whether to use sccache for compiler caching to speed up rebuilds. ON by default if sccache is installed.
- CCACHE (ON|OFF): whether to use ccache for compiler caching to speed up rebuilds. ON by default if ccache is installed. If sccache and ccache are both installed, sccache will be prefered.
- PCH (ON|OFF): Enables the use of precompiled headers. ON by default if either ccache or sccache was not found or was disabled.
- PERFORM_CODESIGN (ON|OFF): Performs codesigning during the install step. This only works on Windows and macOS and requires the appropriate certificates to be installed in order for signing to work. Note that codesigning and notarization might be broken as they haven't been tested.
- PERFORM_NOTARIZATION (ON|OFF): [macOS Only] Performs notarizaiton during the install step. This only works on macOS and if PERFORM_NTOARIZATION has been enabled.
- PACKAGE_MANUAL (ON|OFF): Packages the (Audacity) manual alongside DMG and InnoSetup targets.
The following feature options are enabled by default if the required libraries are found. You may explicitly disable them if you prefer or your distribution has outdated libraries that do not build with Saucedacity.
- MIDI (ON|OFF): MIDI support. Requires PortMidi and PortSMF.
- ID3TAG (ON|OFF): ID3 tag support for MP3 files. Requires libid3tag.
- MP3_DECODING (ON|OFF): MP3 decoding support. Requires libmad.
- MP2 (ON|OFF): MP2 codec support. Requires Twolame library.
- OGG (ON|OFF): Ogg container format support. Requires libogg.
- VORBIS (ON|OFF): Vorbis codec support. Requires libvorbis.
- FLAC (ON|OFF): FLAC codec support. Requires libflac and libflac++ C++ bindings.
- SBSMS (ON|OFF): SBSMS timestretching support. Requires libsbsms.
- SOUNDTOUCH (ON|OFF): SoundTouch timestretching support. Requires SoundTouch library.
- FFMPEG (ON|OFF): Support for a wide variety of codecs with FFmpeg. Requires FFmpeg libraries.
- VAMP (ON|OFF): VAMP plugin hosting support. Requires VAMP host SDK.
- LV2 (ON|OFF): LV2 plugin hosting support. Requires LV2, lilv, and suil libraries.
- VST2 (ON|OFF): VST2 plugin hosting support. No libraries are required. ON by default.