JUCE for Debian
===============

upstream's preferred form of usage of JUCE is to include a verbatim copy of all
used JUCE modules in your appication.
This is made explicit in the 'Projucer', JUCE's own software project
management workbench, that will copy (or symlink, or include otherwise) the
modules' source code into your project.

For various reasons, Debian frowns upon static linking for distributed packages
and instead encourages dynamic linking (see [1] for a discussion).

Therefore, JUCE for Debian is built as a library ("libjuce") that has all
(possible) features enabled.
Debian packages of software that uses JUCE are encouraged to use this library.

Developers who write their own JUCE-based applications will most likely not be
able to use libjuce/libjuce-dev directly without concessions to the
portability of their projects.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking


# Projucer for Debian

If you are developing your own JUCE application, you are of course free to
follow upstream's advice.
Installing the following packages will give you the 'Projucer' as Debian
packages while keeping your embedded-module-code workflow:
 - juce-tools (contains the Projucer)
 - juce-modules-source (contains the source-code for the JUCE modules)

The 'Projucer' as shipped with Debian has the following modification regarding
the once shipped by upstream:

- The generated project Makefile will honour external *FLAGS (e.g. CXXFLAGS) by
  appending them to the internally used JUCE_*FLAGS.

     $ make CPPFLAGS="-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"

- The generated project Makefile will allow verbose builds (showing you the
  actualy compiler/linker invocation)

      $ make V=1

- The Projucer *itself* is linked against libjuce, rather than including the
  modules statically. (Though you will hopefully never notice a difference here)



# Debian packages that depend on JUCE

This is a quick guideline for packaging upstream software that uses JUCE for
Debian.

- Build-Depend on 'libjuce-dev'.

- Patch the project's (generated) Linux/Makefile:
  - Remove all references to the juce-modules from OBJECTS.
    AFAICT, these are the lines starting with "$(OBJDIR)/juce_".
  - For "Release" builds:
    - Add "$(shell pkg-config --cflags juce)" to the projects CFLAGS
    - Add "$(shell pkg-config --libs juce)" to the projects LDFLAGS
      (as a bonus, you can now remove *most* explicitly mentioned libraries,
       e.g. "-lX11")
  - For "Debug" builds use 'juce-dbg' instead of 'juce', but you probably don't
    want Debug builds anyhow...


### Notes on *FLAGS
you are probably aware that JUCE Makefiles override your
CPPFLAGS/CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS, making it hard to apply hardening flags.
I usually prefix these flags with JUCE_ (e.g. "CPPFLAGS" becomes
"JUCE_CPPFLAGS") and then append the external flag ("$(CPPFLAGS)") to these.

You could recreate the Makefiles by running the project's .jucer file through
Debian's "Projucer" (the so-generated Makefiles allow both overriding of
*FLAGS and building verbosely), but adding 'juce-tools' to the Build-Depends is
probably an overkill.

