====== OpenSong on Linux  ======
**//If you're using OpenSong on Linux please consider adding useful links or making an edit to add tips or information that will help other users of OpenSong.//**

Note that the [[syntax]] in this wiki differs from wikipedia (//et al.//).

--- //this page started by [[pbhj@hotmail.com|pbhj]] 2007/10/07 23:35, I'm not an OpenSong coder just an eager user//
===== Installion on various distros =====
==== OpenSong on Ubuntu ====
[[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opensong/OpenSongLinux-V1.2.tgz| Version 1.2.0 (link to sourceforge download)]] is available as a "tgz" file. This has been confirmed to work on the [[http://www.ubuntu.com/|Ubuntu]] based [[http://www.kubuntu.org/| Kubuntu]] "Edgy Eft" 6.10 and "Feisty Fawn" 7.04.

A guide to installing both Kubuntu and OpenSong (by compilation and from tarball) is available. At the time of writing information there has been used to enable xinerama and have "single screen" presentation mode used across two physical displays.

==== Other distros ====
There is currently no other specifically targetted distro however users may find that the release tar.gz (aka "tarball") will run on their distro. Please add a report to the wiki for any unmentioned distro on which you have OpenSong running.

===== OpenSong on Linux using WINE =====
[[http://www.winehq.org/|WINE]] is a compatability layer that enables API calls for Windows to work on Linux (and other x86 based unixes). This means that the OpenSong MS Windows executable files can be used with a Linux distro.

Tests have shown running via WINE will not enable dual screen modes (and this is confirmed by reports on the http://www.winehq.org/ site that the hooks needed are not in place).

===== Compiling OpenSong =====
OpenSong is written in [[http://www.realbasic.com/|RealBasic]] and requires the [[http://www.realsoftware.com/store/realbasic/new.php|build environment from RealBasic]] (which is available as a free-//gratis// Standard Edition and a paid for Professional Edition in addition to non-free editions for other environments). Cross-compilation is disabled in the free-//gratis// standard edition. Or it was in mine.  --- //[[pbhj@hotmail.com|p bhj]] 2007/10/07 23:42//

==== Problems ====

==== Tips ====