README

OpenMPT and libopenmpt

This repository contains OpenMPT, a free Windows/Wine-based tracker and libopenmpt, a library to render tracker music (MOD, XM, S3M, IT MPTM and dozens of other legacy formats) to a PCM audio stream. libopenmpt is directly based on OpenMPT, offering the same playback quality and format support, and development of the two happens in parallel.

License

The OpenMPT/libopenmpt project is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause License. See LICENSE for the full license text.

Files below the include/ (external projects) and contrib/ (related assets not directly considered integral part of the project) folders may be subject to other licenses. See the respective subfolders for license information. These folders are not distributed in all source packages, and in particular they are not distributed in the Autotools packages.

How to compile

OpenMPT

• Supported Visual Studio versions:

  • Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Community/Professional/Enterprise

    To compile the project, open build/vs2015/OpenMPT.sln and hit the compile button.

  • Visual Studio 2017 Community/Professional/Enterprise

    To compile the project, open build/vs2017/OpenMPT.sln and hit the compile button.

• The Windows 8.1 SDK and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) are required to build OpenMPT (both are included with Visual Studio, however may need to be selected explicitly during setup). In order to build OpenMPT for Windows XP, the XP targetting toolset also needs to be installed.

• The ASIO SDK is needed for compiling with ASIO support.

  If you don't want this, comment out #define MPT_WITH_ASIO in the file common/BuildSettings.h.

  The ASIO SDK can be downloaded automatically on Windows 7 or later with 7-Zip installed by just running the build/download_externals.cmd script.

  If you do not want to or cannot use this script, you may follow these manual steps instead:

  • Visit steinberg.net to download the SDK.

  • Put the ASIO SDK in the include/ASIOSDK2 folder. The top level directory of the SDK is already named ASIOSDK2, so simply move that directory in the include folder.

  If you need further help with the ASIO SDK, get in touch with the main OpenMPT developers.

• 7-Zip is required to be installed in the default path in order to build the required files for OpenMPT Wine integration.

  Please visit 7-zip.org to download 7-Zip.

libopenmpt and openmpt123

For detailed requirements, see libopenmpt/dox/quickstart.md.

• Autotools

  Grab a libopenmpt-VERSION-autotools.tar.gz tarball.

  ./configure
  make
  make check
  sudo make install
  

  Cross-compilation is generally supported (although only tested for targetting MinGW-w64).

  Note that some MinGW-w64 distributions come with the win32 threading model enabled by default instead of the posix threading model. The win32 threading model lacks proper support for C++11 <thread> and <mutex> as well as thread-safe magic statics. It is recommended to use the posix threading model for libopenmpt for this reason. On Debian, the appropriate configure command is ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-posix for 64bit, or ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-g++-posix for 32bit. Other MinGW-w64 distributions may differ.

• Visual Studio:

  • You will find solutions for Visual Studio 2015 to 2017 in the corresponding build/vsVERSION/ folder. Projects that target Windows versions before Windows 7 are available in build/vsVERSIONxp/ Most projects are supported with any of the mentioned Visual Studio verions, with the following exceptions:

    • in_openmpt: Requires Visual Studio with MFC.

    • xmp-openmpt: Requires Visual Studio with MFC.

  • You will need the Winamp 5 SDK and the XMPlay SDK if you want to compile the plugins for these 2 players. They can be downloaded automatically on Windows 7 or later with 7-Zip installed by just running the build/download_externals.cmd script.

    If you do not want to or cannot use this script, you may follow these manual steps instead:

    • Winamp 5 SDK:

      To build libopenmpt as a winamp input plugin, copy the contents of WA5.55_SDK.exe to include/winamp/.

      Please visit winamp.com to download the SDK. You can disable in_openmpt in the solution configuration.

    • XMPlay SDK:

      To build libopenmpt with XMPlay input plugin support, copy the contents of xmp-sdk.zip into include/xmplay/.

      Please visit un4seen.com to download the SDK. You can disable xmp-openmpt in the solution configuration.

• Makefile

  The makefile supports different build environments and targets via the CONFIG= parameter directly to the make invocation. Use make CONFIG=$newconfig clean when switching between different configs because the makefile cleans only intermediates and target that are active for the current config and no configuration state is kept around across invocations.

  • mingw-w64:

    The required version is at least 4.8.

    make CONFIG=mingw64-win32    # for win32
    
    make CONFIG=mingw64-win64    # for win64
    

  • gcc or clang (on Unix-like systems, including Mac OS X with MacPorts, and Haiku (32-bit Hybrid and 64-bit)):

    The minimum required compiler versions are:

    • gcc 4.8

    • clang 3.6

    The Makefile requires pkg-config for native builds. For sound output in openmpt123, PortAudio or SDL is required. openmpt123 can optionally use libflac and libsndfile to render PCM files to disk.

    When using gcc, run:

    make CONFIG=gcc
    

    When using clang, it is recommended to do:

    make CONFIG=clang
    

    Otherwise, simply run

    make
    

    which will try to guess the compiler based on your operating system.

  • emscripten (on Unix-like systems):

    libopenmpt has been tested and verified to work with emscripten 1.31 or later (earlier versions might or might not work).

    Run:

    make CONFIG=emscripten
    

    Running the test suite on the command line is also supported by using node.js. Version 0.10.25 or greater has been tested. Earlier versions might or might not work. Depending on how your distribution calls the node.js binary, you might have to edit build/make/config-emscripten.mk.

  • American Fuzzy Lop:

    To compile libopenmpt with fuzzing instrumentation for afl-fuzz, run:

    make CONFIG=afl
    

    For more detailed instructions, read contrib/fuzzing/readme.md

  • other compilers:

    To compiler libopenmpt with other C++11 compliant compilers, run:

    make CONFIG=generic
    

  The Makefile supports some customizations. You might want to read the top which should get you some possible make settings, like e.g. make DYNLINK=0 or similar. Cross compiling or different compiler would best be implemented via new config-*.mk files.

  The Makefile also supports building doxygen documentation by using

  make doc
  

  Binaries and documentation can be installed systen-wide with

  make PREFIX=/yourprefix install
  make PREFIX=/yourprefix install-doc
  

  Some systems (i.e. Linux) require running

  sudo ldconfig
  

  in order for the system linker to be able to pick up newly installed libraries.

  PREFIX defaults to /usr/local. A DESTDIR= parameter is also supported.

• Android NDK

  See build/android_ndk/README.AndroidNDK.txt.

Contributing to OpenMPT/libopenmpt

See contributing.