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.. _building:
Building aubio
==============
.. note::
To download a prebuilt version of aubio, see :ref:`download`.
aubio uses `waf`_ to configure, compile, and test the source.
A copy of waf is included in aubio tarball, so all you need is a terminal,
a compiler, and a recent version of python installed.
.. note::
Make sure you have all the :ref:`requirements` you want before building.
Latest release
--------------
The **latest stable release** can be downloaded from https://aubio.org/download::
$ curl -O http://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.3.tar.bz2
$ tar xf aubio-0.4.3.tar.bz2
$ cd aubio-0.4.3
Git repository
--------------
The **latest git branch** can be obtained with::
$ git clone git://git.aubio.org/git/aubio
$ cd aubio
The following command will fetch the correct `waf`_ version (not included in
aubio's git)::
$ ./scripts/get_waf.sh
.. note::
Windows users without `Git Bash`_ installed will want to use the following
commands instead:
.. code:: bash
$ curl -fsS -o waf https://waf.io/waf-1.8.22
$ curl -fsS -o waf.bat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/waf-project/waf/master/utils/waf.bat
Compiling
---------
To compile the C library, examples programs, and tests, run::
$ ./waf configure
Check out the available options using ``./waf configure --help``. Once
you are done with configuration, you can start building::
$ ./waf build
To install the freshly built C library and tools, simply run the following
command::
$ sudo ./waf install
.. note::
Windows users should simply run ``waf``, without the leading ``./``. For
instance:
.. code:: bash
$ waf configure build
Cleaning
--------
If you wish to uninstall the files installed by the ``install`` command, use
``uninstall``::
$ sudo ./waf uninstall
To clean the source directory, use the ``clean`` command::
$ ./waf clean
To also forget the options previously passed to the last ``./waf configure``
invocation, use the ``distclean`` command::
$ ./waf distclean
.. _waf: https://waf.io/
.. _Git Bash: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
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