Rack
Rack is the engine for the VCV open-source virtual Eurorack DAW.
This README includes instructions for building Rack from source. For information about the software, go to https://vcvrack.com/.
The Issue Tracker is the official developer's forum
Bug reports, feature requests, and even questions/discussions are welcome on the GitHub Issue Tracker for all VCVRack repos. However, please search before posting to avoid duplicates, and limit to one issue per post.
You may vote on feature requests by using the Thumbs Up/Down reaction on the first post.
I rarely accept Pull Requests, so please notify me in advance to plan your contribution before writing code.
Setting up your development environment
Rack's dependencies (GLEW, glfw, etc) do not need to be installed on your system, since specific versions are compiled locally during the build process. However, you need proper tools to build these dependencies.
Mac
Install Xcode. Install CMake (for some of Rack's dependencies) and wget, preferably from Homebrew.
Windows
Install MSYS2 and launch the mingw64 shell (not the default msys2 shell). Install build dependencies with the pacman package manger.
pacman -S git make tar unzip mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
Linux
With your distro's package manager, make sure you have installed gcc, make, cmake, tar, and unzip.
Building
If the build fails for you, please report the issue with a detailed error message to help the portability of Rack.
Clone this repository and cd into it.
If you would like to build a previous version of Rack instead of the master branch, check out the desired tag with git checkout v0.4.0 for example.
Clone submodules.
git submodule update --init --recursive
Build dependencies locally.
You may use make's -j$(nproc) flag to parallelize builds across all your CPU cores.
make dep
You should see a message that all dependencies built successfully.
Build Rack.
make
Run Rack.
make run
Building plugins
Be sure to check out and build the version of Rack you wish to build your plugins against.
You must clone the plugin in Rack's plugins/ directory, e.g.
cd plugins
git clone https://github.com/VCVRack/Fundamental.git
Clone submodules.
cd Fundamental
git submodule update --init --recursive
Build plugin.
make
License
Rack source code by Andrew Belt licensed under BSD-3-Clause
Component Library graphics by Grayscale licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0