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SDIF Library

AudioSculpt
#1

Hello everyone,

I’ve tried to build the SDIF Library from sources. I’ve downloaded the zip file of the latest version from SourceForge, SDIF-3.11.4-src.zip. I unzipped it into my home folder (/Users/antonioflorenca) and entered the following set of instructions in Terminal:

mv SDIF-3.11.4-src SDIF-3.11.4
cd SDIF-3.11.4
./configure --prefix=pwd --enable-shared=no --enable-pthreads=no
make
make install

Everything goes ok (with a few warnings), as far as I can see, until “make install” (I’ve also tried “sudo make install”), for which I get:

Making install in sdif
test -z “/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib” || …/./install-sh -c -d “/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib”
/bin/sh …/libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c ‘libsdif.la’ ‘/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib/libsdif.la’
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libsdif.lai /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib/libsdif.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libsdif.a /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib/libsdif.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib/libsdif.a
libtool: install: ranlib /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/lib/libsdif.a
make[2]: Nothing to be done for install-data-am'. Making install in include make[2]: Nothing to be done forinstall-exec-am’.
test -z “/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include” || …/./install-sh -c -d “/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘sdif.h’ ‘/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include/sdif.h’
install: sdif.h and /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include/sdif.h are the same file
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘sdif_version.h’ ‘/Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include/sdif_version.h’
install: sdif_version.h and /Users/antonioflorenca/SDIF-3.11.4/include/sdif_version.h are the same file
make[2]: *** [install-sdifincHEADERS] Error 64
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Any idea what went wrong here and how I can fix it, if at all? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve attached a rtf file with all the output from Terminal running the instruction-set listed above.

All the best,
António

install-SDIF-3.11.4.rtf (38.3 KB)

#2

Hello António,
The issue is that you’re trying to install in the current directory, which does not work.
On the one hand, it’s usually better to install the package somewhere else, as it yields a simpler and cleaner install. On the other hand, if you just want to build the library there and maybe pick the parts you need, you should just run “make” and not “make install”. The executables will be in the “tools” directory, the headers in “include”, SdifTypes.STYP in “data”, and sdif.pc in the root directory. The only trick is the library (libsdif.a and libsdif.la) is in the “sdif/.libs” directory, which is hidden and won’t appear in the finder

#3

Hello,

in case you want to create the python packages for using SDIF in python, you cannot do this with the SDIF library,
you ned to use EASDIF, also the zip file in the SDIF repo is very old, you should not use it. We do maintain the repos and source code, but we don’t do any
releases any more.

Best
Axel