Guide to contributing to Csound

Developers
#1

Hey all!

recently i learned some C coding and i want to start contributing to Csound. Especially with fixing and optimizing some opcodes.

Since i have some problems with figuring out to do this, i was thinking about that it would be nice to have a low level guide to do this. Not only for me, but also for future noobs.
For example my problem is:

  • i searched for the opcode files on my system, but i just found the binary csound file
  • on the github project page, on the master branch, i didn’t find the opcode (ctrlpreset) file i want to work on

What do you think of this?

#2

Most opcodes are built into Csound. ctrlpreset is one of Csound’s internal opcodes. I’m not sure how you searching the github repo, but I just typed ctrlpreset into the search bar, and github listed all these files for me:

If you want to dig around a little you will need to first build Csound. There are build instructions in csound/BUILD.md at develop · csound/csound · GitHub
Note that it’s probably best to build from the develop branch as this is where csound7 lives.