sfArk to sf2 converter

[raboof]

I'm happy to announce sfArkXTm for beta testing!

This was heavily based on code generously open-sourced by Andy Inman of MelodyMachine.com.

* https://github.com/raboof/sfArkXTm
* https://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib

Let me know about any positive or negative experiences - the build parameters might need some tweaking, but I've done some testing on several machines and things are looking pretty good already!

[andy2i]

I'm happy too Thanks for your great work.

[Carl]

Here an instruction for installing for Debian / Ubuntu based systems:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=589

For those who like it more simple, like me, an online conversion:
https://cloudconvert.org/sfark-to-sf2

[Luc]

None of this works for me. The git repository demands user/password credentials, which I don't have, and the online converter fails with all the files I have here.

[raboof]

None of this works for me. The git repository demands user/password credentials, which I don't have, and the online converter fails with all the files I have here.

It should only require credentials if you want to use a protocol that allows write access. I.e. 'git clone http://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib' should work without credentials.

[Luc]

OK, it works. Thanks. But note that the instructions on http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=589 are different:

git clone https://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib.github

You recommend:

git clone http://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib

Your way works, the other doesn't.

But then I run 'make' and get this error:

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g++ -fPIC -D__LITTLE_ENDIAN__ -Wall -Wextra   -c -o sfklCoding.o sfklCoding.cpp
sfklCoding.cpp:49:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
 #include "zlib.h"
                  ^
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'sfklCoding.o' failed
make: *** [sfklCoding.o] Error 1

I installed zlibc, but maybe that is not enough?

[raboof]

But note that the instructions on http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=589 are different

Thanks for noticing. I added some comments on that blog.

I installed zlibc, but maybe that is not enough?

Correct: for compiling you alzo need the development headers (found in the zlib1g-dev package on Debian, probably the same on Ubuntu).