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Last release (GTK+ 2): v1.0.5 (17-Mar-2024)
Development / maintenance (GTK+ 2): Git master
More or less functional GTK+ 3 port: Git gtk3 branch
Last release for GTK+ 1: v0.6.8 (25-Feb-2006)
The rest of this web site is mostly out of date.

Software Requirements

• You must be running the Linux operating system. There is no Windows port of SoundTracker (but see below). As far as other Un*x-like operating systems are concerned, this is what my users told me:
  
  

  OS	Status	sent in by
  Linux 2.4.x, glibc-2.2.x	This is the development configuration; works flawlessly.	Michael Krause
  OpenBSD 3.0-3.3 & -current	v0.6.7 compiles and works fine.	Wilbern Cobb
  NetBSD	v0.6.7 compiles and works fine.	Henri Jylkkä
  Darwin	v0.6.7 compiles and works fine. It's in Fink.	Mathias Meyer
  SunOS 5.7	v0.3.8 compiles and works without problems; full functionality.	Fernando Mendez
  IRIX 5.x	v0.5.9 compiles and works with --disable-nls; sample loading/saving untested.	Michael Krause
  FreeBSD	The source probably needs some patches. A port of v0.6.6 is available here.	Kristopher Zentner
  RISC OS	A port of v0.6.7 is available.	Unix Porting Project

  
  
• gtk+ 1.2.2 or later. If you use an earlier version, your menu bar might not be working! gtk+ is available from http://www.gtk.org/.

Optional, but recommended

• audiofile library, at least version 0.1.5 (if possible, use 0.1.10 or later). This is part of the GNOME project and can be found at http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/. Recent distributions carry this package by default, but it's also easy to compile yourself. You can only load and save samples if you have libaudiofile installed. Versions 0.2.0+ are only supported correctly by SoundTracker 0.6.2+.
• GNOME, available from http://www.gnome.org/. Some features are only available in this version, such as the graphical instrument envelope editor.
• glibc 2.1 or later. (When using glibc 2.0.x, the sound output gets non-continous sometimes, even when no other processes are running besides SoundTracker.)
• The ALSA driver supports only the v0.4.x and v0.5.x architectures of ALSA. For later versions, please use the OSS emulation included with ALSA, and the standard OSS driver from SoundTracker. If you want to make use of the MIDI input features of SoundTracker, please install one of the supported ALSA versions.

For libc5 users

You need thread-safe X libraries. On a glibc2 system (RedHat >= 5.0, SuSE >= 6.0), this is no issue. But if you have a libc5 system and you get strange X I/O errors when starting ST, you need to get a special version of your X libraries -- you can download them here (299K). Install instructions are in the archive.

Hardware Requirements

A lot of people keep asking me what the optimum hardware configuration for using SoundTracker is. I've developed and used it on an AMD K5 @100MHz with 64MB RAM for a long time, even though 32MB might be sufficient as well. Later I've been running it on an AMD K6-2 @400MHz, with 128MB and a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 128 PCI. The sound card is quite good, even though Linux's es1370 driver apparently has some problems in full-duplex mode.

Win32 Porting