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brew install csound v6.18.1_14 LGPL-2.1-or-later

Sound and music computing system

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90-day · #3843
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Runtime dependencies

faust fltk fluid-synth gettext hdf5 jack lame liblo libpng libsamplerate libsndfile libwebsockets numpy openjdk openssl@3 portaudio portmidi python@3.14 stk wiiuse

Build dependencies

asio cmake eigen swig

Links

Caveats

To use the Java bindings, you may need to add to your shell profile
e.g. ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc:
  export CLASSPATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/csound/libexec/csnd6.jar:."
and link the native shared library into your Java Extensions folder:
  mkdir -p ~/Library/Java/Extensions
  ln -s "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/csound/libexec/lib_jcsound6.jnilib" ~/Library/Java/Extensions
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