static, precomiled ltcdump binaries

[arikrupnik]

I'm working on an application that synchronizes files in post-production. GPL 3.0. The project is at https://github.com/arikrupnik/ltcsync. The project uses ltcdump to parse timecode out of audio streams. For cross-platform UI, the project uses Electron.js. I want to support MacOS, Windows and Linux.

My approach to interfacing with ltcdump has been to invoke it as a child process from Node. This works well in my development on Linux. For MacOS and Windows users, I want to package pre-built, static binaries with my distribution. I understand that on occasion, you've made ltcdump.exe available.

I wonder if you may be willing to provide official, static binaries for ltcdump.

[x42]

I can do a one time compile, but I'm not interested in maintaining binary releases.
Maybe travis or some similar CI can help and compile those binaries?

[arikrupnik]

Thank you for getting back to me! A one-time compile would be wonderful and would get me going.

I would love to set up CI builds. I would set uplibltc and ltctools as submodules of LTScync. I can set up the Linux build, but my challenge is setting up the Windows or Mac builds, and Travis doesn't even support Windows.

In any case, if you could one-time build static binaries for Linux, Windows and Mac, it would help the LTCsync project greatly.

Thank you again for your software, and for getting back to me on this.

[x42]

See https://github.com/x42/ltc-tools/releases/tag/v0.7.0

I'm considering to some Linux x86, x86_64 and armhf binaries, too...

[arikrupnik]

Thank you! It would be wonderful if you could add Linux binaries for completeness. I think x86 and x86_64 are the two common targets. I don't know if ARM is a big market in video editing.

Out of curiosity--Mac .zip is the only file that doesn't include version number in the file name.

[arikrupnik]

Thank you for adding Linux binaries!

[x42]

I've also fixed the MacOS/X zip name. Thanks for noticing. Re ARM, The target is Raspberry-Pi for example. It may come in handy for some embedded solution anyway.

Now I have to check out your LTCSync too. I don't have an immediate use-case, but handling tenatacle sync is very interesting!

[arikrupnik]

Thank you. I would appreciate any feedback. The project is in early stage of development, so feedback now can have large impact!

[arikrupnik]

I have verified linux-x86_64 and w64 builds are working. I don't have a Mac environment, but I can get one through Travis. I need to do a little more work for my tests to run on CI (arikrupnik/ltcsync#4). Will let you know once I can verify it there.