CasparCG on Linux notes

Table of Contents CasparCG on Linux Compiling on Kubuntu 17.04 Fixing problems on Kubuntu 17.04 General HTML producer

CasparCG on Linux

Keep in mind that only officially supported Linux distribution is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Compiling on Kubuntu 17.04

sudo apt install build-essential git-core cmake libudev-dev libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsndfile1-dev libxrandr-dev
git clone [repo] CasparCG-Server

Because Ubuntu shipped gcc defaults to PIE you need to disable it - apply patch from:
https://github.com/CasparCG/Server/pull/510/commits/808f91c29b0daeeefebad3c6b9a31f7823e356fa

You will also need to grab libgcrypt.so.11 from older Ubuntu version (CEF3 requirement):
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2_amd64.deb

cd CasparCG-Server
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j[number of CPU cores]

Fixing problems on Kubuntu 17.04

General

Error while loading libgcrypt.so.11:
Extract libgcrypt.so.11 and libgcrypt.so.11.8.2 to CasparCG lib/ directory. You can get it from:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2_amd64.deb

Error while loading libcgmanager.so.0:

sudo apt install libcgmanager0

HTML producer

After playing HTML template you can get some error messages or even a freeze.

To fix GTK theme error:

sudo apt install gnome-themes-standard

To fix Fontconfig error which probably also causes freeze in rendering engine, add below line to script starting CasparCG Server:

export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/etc/fonts