Unable to Build Ardour for Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

[rajeshm]

UPDATE: This is now resolved! Thank you!

I have installed all the dependencies to Build Ardour and have installed Git. I have also downloaded the source files to install Ardour. However, when I change directory to ardour and then try to run:

./waf configure

to prepare to compile the program. I am getting the following error message:

Checking for ‘jack’ >= 0.121.0 : not found
The configuration failed

The log file shows the following:

Checking for ‘jack’ >= 0.121.0
[’/usr/bin/pkg-config’, ‘jack >= 0.121.0’, ‘–cflags’, ‘–libs’, ‘jack’]
err: Package jack was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing jack.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'jack' found Package jack was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing jack.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘jack’ found

Can someone help me get past this issue please?

[Sahaathyva]

Hello,

Do you have jack installed on your system?
If not maybe you should or tell the compiler to ignore jack things if its an available option.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

@rajeshm

Can someone help me get past this issue please?

Try sudo apt-get build-dep ardour - on debian/Ubuntu that’ll build-dependencies. As for the configuration options, I suggest to compare to ardour builds.

[rajeshm]

Thank you for this suggestion! I was trying to run

sudo apt-get -y install libjack-dev

instead of

sudo apt-get -y install libjack-jackd2-dev

This is now resolved!