No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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The menu entry "Show native GUI" is grayed out for all Calf plugins.

MusE built 24.05.2020 from GIT master branch

Calf-pluggins installed from Ubuntu distribution; all dependencies satisfied:
> apt-cache show calf-plugins
(all dependencies installed)
Recommends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf
(is also installed)
> dpkg --listfiles calf-plugins | grep '\.so'
/usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calflv2gui.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calf/calf.so
/usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calf.so
> ldd /usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calflv2gui.so
(all libraries present)
> ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calf/calf.so
(all libraries present)
> ldd /usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calf.so
(all libraries present)

This used to work on Ubuntu-18.04. Did they screw up the plugins, or does MusE need an adaption? Anybody else seeing the native GUIs?

I'm aware that Ubuntu is not the reference regarding audio plugins; should I compile the plugins on my own, or get them from some other source? It seems a long way to get MusE into an acceptable state for actual use ...
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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dailybug2 wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 6:45 am The menu entry "Show native GUI" is grayed out for all Calf plugins.

MusE built 24.05.2020 from GIT master branch

Calf-pluggins installed from Ubuntu distribution; all dependencies satisfied:
> apt-cache show calf-plugins
(all dependencies installed)
Recommends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf
(is also installed)
> dpkg --listfiles calf-plugins | grep '\.so'
/usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calflv2gui.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calf/calf.so
/usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calf.so
> ldd /usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calflv2gui.so
(all libraries present)
> ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calf/calf.so
(all libraries present)
> ldd /usr/lib/lv2/calf.lv2/calf.so
(all libraries present)

This used to work on Ubuntu-18.04. Did they screw up the plugins, or does MusE need an adaption? Anybody else seeing the native GUIs?

I'm aware that Ubuntu is not the reference regarding audio plugins; should I compile the plugins on my own, or get them from some other source? It seems a long way to get MusE into an acceptable state for actual use ...
If you want a turnkey solution then, yes, MusE has some ways to go, but then again so has all other open source solutions (maybe all linux based solutions) to various extent.

What you are experiencing does not look right though. I recently upgraded a system to 20.04, I will check tonight if there is any related issue
Could you run the cmake step again and see if it reports any issues which might block the UI support?
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

Post by Tim E. Real »

I think Calf uses gtk UIs.
You likely did not install the necessary GTK development packages.
Install them and reconfigure MusE then rebuild.
MusE will automatically pick them up since the cmake option 'ENABLE_LV2_GTK2' for them is enabled by default

From our README:
- LV2 Gtk2 User Interface support:

Some LV2 plugins may provide a Gtk2 based graphical User Interface.
To view them, the following is required (development files):
gtkmm-2
http://www.gtkmm.org
gtk+-2
http://www.gtk.org
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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It does work on my upgraded installation.

Though since there can be a number of reasons why this differs I went ahead and installed 20.04 in a virtual machine and redid the installation.
In the README in the base folder there is an apt command for installing all dependencies, I used that and then built and installed muse + calf-plugins, the resulting muse could display the guis of the calf plugins.

Tim is probably on the right track, If you didn't use the apt string from the readme it is likely you are missing the 'libgtkmm-2.4-dev' package, then the gtk gui support will not be built.
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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dailybug2 wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 6:45 am I'm aware that Ubuntu is not the reference regarding audio plugins; should I compile the plugins on my own, or get them from some other source? It seems a long way to get MusE into an acceptable state for actual use ...
I run on Debian 10/Buster with XFCE4 (I have it on all my machines) and the Calf plugins all show their native GUI.

I used to compile all plugins myself, but now that kxstudio is updated again I usually install from https://kx.studio/Repositories:Plugins. Download the deb and install with "sudo dpkg -i <xxx>.deb".

MusE DAW running on Debian 11 Testing/XFCE4.
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

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OK, thanks for your effort. Most likely some auto-cleanup of .deb packages caused the problem. Of course I built MusE from scratch again, but I did not have a look at the config warnings again. Quite a lot of pitfalls ...

Btw; If I would expect a "turnkey solution", I would not be here :wink:
My DAW must run on Linux! I'm a Linux user since 1990 at home and since ~1995 at work. Absolutely no Windows except for remote desktop on the company server.
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Re: No native GIU for Calf plugins on Ubuntu-20.04

Post by dailybug2 »

Mea culpa once again; the following packets were missing: libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev
I guess they had been installed for some other actions on Ubuntu-18.04, so they didn't make it to my list of packets to be installed.

Here my current list (may be yet incomplete):

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# Minimum packets
sudo apt install \
cmake \
g++ \
git \
ladspa-sdk \
libjack-jackd2-dev \
libqt5svg5-dev \
libsamplerate0-dev \
libsndfile1-dev \
qt5-default \
qttools5-dev

# Optional / recommended packetes
sudo apt install \
dssi-dev \
libfluidsynth-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
libinstpatch-dev \
liblilv-dev \
liblo-dev \
liblrdf0-dev \
librtaudio-dev \
librubberband-dev \
libzita-resampler-dev \
lv2-dev
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