Fanfare Simulator

Setup

Dependencies:

• CMake
• Qt
• FluidSynth

Linux

On Debian-based systems:

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev libfluidsynth-dev

In the project directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

macOS

brew install qt fluidsynth

In the project directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

MSYS2/MinGW-w64

Assuming you have already setup MSYS2 and a MinGW-w64 C/C++ toolchain:

pacman -Syu mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5 mingw-w64-x86_64-fluidsynth mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake

In the project directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..

Windows

• If you don't have Visual Studio, install Visual C++ Build Tools
  • Download http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
  • Launch setup, install
  • Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64 to your PATH
  • Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64\ucrt to your PATH
• Install Qt
  • Go to https://www.qt.io/download-qt-for-application-development then "Get your open source package"
  • Launch setup
  • In "Select Components", check "Qt > Qt 5.9.2 > msvc2015 64-bit"
  • Install
  • Add C:\Qt\5.9.2\msvc2015_64\bin to your PATH
• Install pre-built Fluidsynth
  • Download https://github.com/fanfaresimulator/fanfaresimulator/files/1505797/vendor.zip
  • Move it in the project directory
  • Right click > Extract All
  • Add the vendor\lib directory to your PATH
• Install CMake
  • Go to https://cmake.org/download/ then "Latest Release > Binary Distributions > Windows win64-x64 Installer"
  • Launch setup, install
• Run CMake
  • If you have Visual Studio
    • Launch CMake (cmake-gui)
    • Select source directory
    • Create a new directory "build" and select it as build directory
    • Configure
    • Select "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
    • Generate
    • Open project (or open fanfaresimulator.sln with Visual Studio)
    • Build
  • If you don't have Visual Studio, from the CLI:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Qt\5.9.2\msvc2015_64
    msbuild fanfaresimulator.sln

And you're done!

Build

cd build # If you're not there already
make

Usage

Start the server and some clients:

./fanfaresimulator-server
./fanfaresimulator-client

If you want to select a custom MIDI file:

./fanfaresimulator-server <midi-file>

If you want to change the number of players (put 0 to just play the partition):

./fanfaresimulator-server --players-nbr=4

Cleanup build directory

rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..