LightMusic

A lightweight music player. It is written in C++, uses libav (ffmpeg fork) for handling audio and FLTK for GUI.

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Building

Installing dependencies

Dependencies:

• libavformat
• libavcodec
• libavdevice
• libavutil
• libswresample
• libfltk1.3
• libfltk-images1.3

To install them on Debian Linux:

sudo apt install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libfltk1.3-dev libfltk-images1.3

Compiling

Open the terminal in the folder where the source code is.

Execute these commands:

mkdir build # Create a directory to build in
cd build # Step into it
cmake .. # Generate build files
make -jx # Compile (replace x with the number of threads to use)

After building, the binary can be found in the same directory.

Creating desktop file

A desktop file can be created to put on your desktop or in your menu.

To generate it, execute gen_desktop_icon.py with python3. Usually this can be done like this:

python3 ./gen_desktop_icon.py

The output filename is LightMusic.desktop.