How to build and install the jcmoyer Nuked-SC55 fork on Ubuntu 24.04

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This is a step-by-step guide to build and install the jcmoyer fork of Nuked-SC55 on the Ubuntu 24.04 linux distro. This guide should work on all linux distros based on Ubuntu 24.04 including Linux Mint 22.

1) Installing Dependencies:

Open the terminal and install the following dependencies.

sudo apt install gcc
sudo apt install g++
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
sudo apt install git
sudo apt install autoconf
sudo apt install libtool
sudo apt install gettext

1a) RtMIDI:

Rtmidi must be built and installed since it's not available in the Ubuntu or Debian repositories.

Download the the file http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/release/rtmidi-6.0.0.tar.gz

Extract the tar.gz file to a directory.

Open the terminal from inside the extracted folder

bash autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

2) Clone the jcmoyer Nuked-SC55 source:

Choose a directory to clone the source to. Open the directory in the terminal and execute the following command:

git clone https://github.com/jcmoyer/Nuked-SC55.git

3) Build the source code and install:

Open the terminal from inside the Nuked-SC55 folder.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build .
sudo cmake --install .

4) ROMS:

Copy the SC55 ROM's to the /usr/local/share/nuked-sc55 directory. You may need to use sudo privileges to do this.

5) Getting Started:

Open the terminal from anywhere and type nuked-sc55 to open the program.

6) General Use:

To use nuked-sc55 with dosbox, open the the dosbox.conf file, change the "mididevice=" setting to "mididevice=alsa", and change the "midiconfig=" setting to "midiconfig=128:0". When setting up your game, choose the General MIDI option.

All midi programs will need to be set to port 128:0 to play MIDI files through Nuked-SC55.

7) Troubleshooting:

If you encounter a "librtmidi.so.7 is missing" error when starting nuked-sc55, try the following steps.

Open the terminal from anywhere and execute the following commands:

sudo apt purge gettext
sudo apt install gettext

After purging and reinstalling gettext, remove the extracted rtmidi folder and the build folder inside your Nuked-SC55 cloned directory.

Repeat steps 1a and 3.

I don't know why the "librtmidi.so.7 is missing" error happens, but this is the only approach I've found that fixes the problem for me.