ametro, ALSA MIDI Monitor

ametro, ALSA MIDI Monitor ametro

ALSA MIDI Metronome

This program is a little, simple MIDI Metronome using the ALSA sequencer.
Bug reports and comments are welcome.

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New files (2003-10-18):

ametro-0.4.tar.bz2 (131 Kb, source code including ALSAPAS 0.9.7 unit)
ametro-0.4-1mdk.src.rpm (137 Kb, Mandrake 9.1 source rpm)
ametro-0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm (63 Kb, Mandrake 9.1 binary rpm)
ametro-0.4-i586.tar.bz2 (320 Kb, binarty package, Linux i586)

Old files:

ametro-0.3.tar.bz2 (136 Kb, source code including ALSAPAS 0.9.3 unit)
ametro-0.2.tar.bz2 (100 Kb, source code including ALSAPAS 0.9.0-5 unit)
ametro-0.1.tar.bz2 (91 Kb, source code)

RPM Install

Requirements:

Kylix 3 Libraries RPM package. Download it from sourceforge.net/projects/kylixlibs
ALSA 0.9.7 Library RPM, download it from some RPM search engine, as: rpmfind.net , rpm.pbone.net , or freshrpms.net

Install first ALSA and Kylixlibs3 packages, then install ametro as usual:

$ rpm -ivh ametro-0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm

Source Install

Requirements:
Kylix 3 Open Edition, download it from www.borland.com

Unpack the downloaded tarball on your home directory or any other suitable place

    $ tar -xvjf ametro-0.4.tar.bz2

Prepare your kylix compiler environment, running the kylixpath script

    $ source /path_to/kylix3/bin/kylixpath

Run make

    $ make

Optionally, install program as root

    $ make install

Enjoy!

Notes:

Any time you are going to run the program, you should run first the 'kylixpath' script.
Instead of running 'make', you can open the project file 'ametro.dpr' with Kylix IDE, and compile it as usual.
There is a configuration file 'ametrorc'. You should copy it to your $home as ~/.ametrorc, or to /etc/midi/ametrorc

Binary Tarball Install

Unpack the tarball in your home or any other suitable place.

    $ tar -xvjf ametro-0.4-i586.tar.bz2

Change current directory

    $ cd ametro-0.4-i586

Run setup script as root

    $ ./install.sh

Requirements

Every required library is statically compiled into the executable file, except:
From Borland:

libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so

From other sources:

libNoVersion.so.1
libasound.so.2
libX11.so.6
libpthread.so.0
libdl.so.2
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
ld-linux.so.2

You need to have installed every above listed libraries to use the program.
Get them from the following packages for your Linux distribution:

ALSA 0.9.7
XFree86 4.1.0
glibc 2.2.4

libborqt (7.5 Mb) is a Borland Kylix runtime library, you can download a copy from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kylixlibs/kylixlibs3-1.tar.bz2?download

After installing libborqt into /usr/lib/kylixlibs3, you should edit /etc/ld.so.conf
adding the new library directory, and run ldconfig (as root)

    $ echo "/usr/lib/kylixlibs3" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

    $ ldconfig

If you use Red Hat, Mandrake or Debian, there are some easy-to-install packages at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kylixlibs

License

Copyright 2002-2003, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <plcl@bigfoot.com>
Bug reports and comments are welcome.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA