That list seems to assume the Arch system has no GUI. I don't think setting up Arch for a GUI should be done by Cinelerra. If someone wants to build Cinelerra, it is resonable to required it is done on a system with working GUI and video/sound. If was not aware of this readme, else I would have documented the steps to get to a GUI system, but I installed not much. What I remember: xorg xfce4 xfce4-goodies pavucontrol . On that system, I am now testing what is really needed. So far the bld_prepare change is: "arch") pacman -Syu git gtk2 nasm yasm cmake fftw patchelf boost boost-libs ;; Cinelerra-gg built once with this, inclusive appimage, am now running a control build from a pristine snapshot of the VM. I did notice when I started bin/cin that there were some errors in the terminal the first time, something about plugins. And I have not examined if there are more warnings in the build log than on say, Fedora. MatN On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 16:17 +0200, Andrea paz via Cin wrote:
This is the definitive list for README.sh; I propose to replace it with the one in the repository. Many packages will already be installed on the system, but it's better to keep them all (in Arch the base systems vary depending on the configuration of the various users...). I don't know if you should put the list inside bld_prepare.sh because the process is not totally automatic. In Arch, first you have to do a system update (pacman -Syu); then the pacman with all the list; confirm the will to install the packages of the list (and if there is an error you exit the pacman command and you have to give it again after the correction) and finally make sure that the process is successful.
alsa-lib alsa-utils aom cairo clinfo cmake ctags dav1d fftw flac freeglut gdb git glu graphite gtk2 harfbuzz inkscape inxi dvdauthor udftools jbigkit libavc1394 libdv libglvnd libiec61883 libjpeg-turbo libpulse libraw1394 libtheora libtiff libva libva-utils libvdpau libvorbis libvpx libxv libxml2 libwebp mesa-utils nasm numactl openexr opus pango perl-xml-libxml perl-xml-parser python ttf-dejavu vdpauinfo xorg-fonts-misc xorg-mkfontscale yasm
I enclose the README.arch file modified by me.
PS: I put a VM with EndeavourOS, but the build of CinGG fails causing the VM to crash.