This repository was really needed before all the tooling around OCaml that exist nowadays, to make it easier to install all the dependencies required for liquidsoap.
Since then, opam has filled most of these needs and is now our favorite ways of compiling liquidsoap from source. Checkout our installation instructions on how to do so!
Now, for the history nerds:
Savonet is a set of open-source tools for multimedia streaming, particularly adapted for netradios. It is mainly written in OCaml (but the Liquidsoap language has nothing to do with OCaml).
This repository contains (as submodules) all the dependencies required by Liquidsoap.
If you are checking out this repository for the first time you should do
make init
make update
to initialize and update all submodules. The generate and run the configures:
./bootstrap
./configure
and finally build:
make