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Installation

Compiled Binaries

Download binaries for all platforms

Download from a tagged build (v1.x.y) for a stable release, or use the development build ("latest"), which contains the latest version.

Note

A csound plugin is a shared library (.dylib in macOS, .so in Linux, .dll in windows) which is loaded by csound and contains multiple opcodes.

In csound >= 6.16, place the plugins in the user plugins folder (create the folder if it does not exist):

  • macOS: ~/Library/csound/6.0/plugins64
  • Linux: ~/.local/lib/csound/6.0/plugins64
  • Windows: C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\csound\6.0\plugins64

For previous versions, put the plugins along csound's own plugins (this folder should already exist and contain a multitude of files):

  • macOS: /Library/Frameworks/CsoundLib64.framework/Versions/6.0/Resources/Opcodes64 if csound was installed via the official installer, or ~/Library/Frameworks/CsoundLib64.framework/Versions/6.0/Resources/Opcodes64 if installed from source
  • Linux: /usr/local/lib/csound/plugins64-6.0 if installed from source, /usr/lib/csound/plugins64-6.0 if installed by the package manager
  • Windows: C:\Program Files\Csound6_x64\plugins64

Installation from source

The source lives at https://github.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins

Linux

sudo apt-get install libsndfile1-dev nasm
git clone https://github.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins
cd csound-plugins
git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

MacOS

brew install libsndfile
curl -Ls -o nasm-2.14.02.zip 'https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.14.02/macosx/nasm-2.14.02-macosx.zip'
unzip nasm-2.14.02.zip
export PATH="$(realpath nasm-2.14.02):$PATH"
git clone https://github.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins
cd csound-plugins
git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

Windows

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
.\vcpkg\vcpkg integrate install
.\vcpkg\vcpkg install libsndfile:x64-windows

git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -A x64 -DBUILD_JSUSFX_OPCODES=OFF ..
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --install .

# This last step simply copies Release\*.dll to "C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\csound\6.0\plugins64"