Getting Started with the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK) under Linux

This appendix provides a ``getting started'' guide for the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK) [86,91] under Linux [434]. This guide is aimed at developers of STK software, as opposed to mere users. As a result, a couple of modifications will be introduced to facilitate software development (i.e., debugging C++ code). It is also assumed that some variant of UNIX is the resident operating system (the examples below have been tested on Red Hat Fedora Core 4-6). It is assumed that the reader already has some familiarity with programming in C and ideally also C++.

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Subsections

• Installing and Testing the STK
• Customizing the STK for Development
  • STK Subdirectory Overview
  • Compiling the STK Library and Demos
  
  
• STK Tutorial Examples
• Testing Out a New STK Project
• Compiling and Debugging from Emacs

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.