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2. Installation

You can get ksidplayer-0.52.tar.gz from the following ftp site:

You should also be able to download KSidplayer from the homepage of Michael Schwendt at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/.

2.1 Requirements

The file ksidplayer-0.52.tar.gz contains everything that you need to play back SID tunes. In order to successfully compile KSidplayer, you will need sidplay, which is part of the KSidplayer distribution in the subdirectory sidplay-13625. The latest version of sidplay can be downloaded from the homepage of Michael Schwendt at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/.

2.2 Compilation and installation

The steps needed to install and configure KSidplayer are:

  1. First unpack the tar file ksidplayer-0.52.tar.gz somewhere. This will create the directory ksidplayer-0.52. It doesn't matter where you unpack this file: just don't move things around within the ksidplayer-0.52 directory.
  2. Enter the directory sidplay-13625, contained in the directory ksidplayer-0.52. For the moment, the installation of sidplay is NOT integrated in the installation process of KSidplayer, so you will have to install it separately for the moment.
  3. Check the INSTALL file of Sidplay on how to compile and install it. Normally the following command sequence should do it.
    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install
    
    Be sure to check back the INSTALL file, if you run into problems. Send bug reports to Micheal Schwendt sidplay@geocities.com, as he is the author of sidplay and should be able to help you.
  4. Check the INSTALL file of KSidplayer on how to compile and install it. KSidplayer automatically checks for the position of the header, include and library files of sidplay, so KSidplayer should compile out of the box once libsidplay is installed. In order to compile and install KSidplayer, typing the following in the base directory of the KSidplayer distribution usually works:
    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install
    

Should you run into problems please report them to Maik Röder roeder@berg.net.


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