DeaDBeeF is a multiple-platform music player for desktop operating systems.

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_{^{NOTE: The macOS version has not been officially released, and has many unresolved issues and unimplemented features}}

Nightly GNU/Linux Builds

Nightly Windows Builds

Nightly macOS Builds

• See the README file for detailed instructions, dependencies, etc.
• Install git, Clang toolchain
• Remember to get submodules: git submodule update --init
• Install dependencies, as listed in the README file
• Run ./autogen.sh to bootstrap
• Run CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./configure, followed with make and sudo make install.
• For more information about the build process, read the generated INSTALL file and the output of ./configure --help.

• Install Xcode. The latest one is the best, but older versions will usually keep working for a year or two.
• Run sudo xcode-select --install - This will configure git and command line build tools
• Clone the deadbeef git repository
• Remember to get submodules: git submodule update --init

• Run xcodebuild -project osx/deadbeef.xcodeproj -target DeaDBeeF -configuration Release
• The output will be located here: osx/build/Release/DeaDBeeF.app

• Open the osx/deadbeef.xcodeproj in Xcode, and build/run from there

• Install 64-bit version of msys2 and ensure it has updated repositories (pacman -Syu)
• premake5 is also needed
• Get needed dependencies: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libzip mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-dlfcn mingw-w64-x86_64-clang mingw-w64-x86_64-libblocksruntime git make tar xz
• Get a basic set of libraries for most important plugins: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-jansson mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2 mingw-w64-x86_64-mpg123 mingw-w64-x86_64-flac mingw-w64-x86_64-portaudio
• Check Windows plugin status for other plugins dependencies and its functionality
• Ensure that you are in mingw64 shell (run mingw64.exe) and clone this repo
• From deadbeef main directory run premake5 --standard gmake2 using your corresponding path to premake5.exe
• Compile with make config=debug_windows (debug version) or make config=release_windows (strip/normal version)
• Binaries will be placed in bin/debug or bin/release
• GTK3 uses Windows-10 theme and Windows-10-Icons by default. If they are not in msys2 tree, then they must be placed manually in share/icons and share/themes. Eventually you get different theme and set it in etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file.

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