Makefile.HOWTO

If you are using Synth-A-Modeler with a different target than the ones we have tested so far (or you are upgrading to a much newer version of Faust), you will need a properly configured makefile.

In the following, we explain the changes made to the makefiles in faust-0.9.46/examples to arrive at the new makefiles.  (Note that we recommend using at least faust 0.9.58 or later.)


1) First of all, it is really helpful to be able to compile only a single model at a time by specifying the model name (without any extensions) using SAMTARGET= when calling make.  To enable this feature, go to Makefile.pdcompile and change
dspsrc                  := $(wildcard *.dsp)
to
ifdef SAMTARGET
dspsrc                  := $(SAMTARGET).mdl
else
dspsrc                  := $(wildcard *.mdl)
endif

2) Next, the following variables need to be edited so that they are referenced according to an input "mdl" file instead of an input "dsp" file:
cppsrc                  := $(addprefix $(DEST), $(dspsrc:.mdl=.cpp))
dspfile                 := $(dspsrc:.mdl=.dsp)
mdxfile                 := $(dspsrc:.mdl=.mdx)
patches                 := $(addprefix $(DEST),  $(dspsrc:.mdl=.pd))

And further down, similarly these also need to depend on "mdl" files:
ifeq ($(system), Darwin)
modules                 := $(addprefix $(DEST),  $(dspsrc:.mdl=~.pd_darwin))
else
modules                 := $(addprefix $(DEST),  $(dspsrc:.mdl=~.pd_linux))
endif


3) The mdx files also need to be included in the build targets:
allmodules: $(mdxfile) $(dspfile) $(todo)


4) We need to cause perl to be called for building any mdx or dsp files:
%.mdx : %.mdl
        @perl SAM-preprocessor $< $@

%.dsp : %.mdx
        perl Synth-A-Modeler $< $@


5) Make sure that faust is using double-precision computations:
        faust -a $(ARCH) -double $< -o $@


6) I personally like to have a separate directory "pdhelp" to store pre-specified help files (that I make by modifying the
   automatically generated pd-faust files) so that they don't get deleted if I run "make clean".  So I add the
   following lines also, note they only copy over help files that start with the same name as the original mdl file:
 	# If there are pre-specified help files, then copy them over
 	cp pdhelp/$(<:.dsp=*) $(DEST) &





 - Edgar Berdahl, January 2013