CABL / Controller ABstraction Layer

Supported platforms

• OSX
• Linux
• Windows
• Various embedded platforms (in progress)

Supported controllers

• Ableton Push
• Ableton Push2
• Komplete Kontrol S25
• Komplete Kontrol S49
• Komplete Kontrol S61
• Komplete Kontrol S88
• Maschine Jam
• Maschine Mk1
• Maschine Mk2
• Maschine Mikro Mk2
• Traktor Kontrol F1 Mk2

Getting started

OSX

Make sure the following packages/applications are installed:

• Homebrew
• CMake (>=3.4)
• Xcode (>= 6.4) or GCC (>= 4.9)

Then install libUSB (>=1.0.20), HIDAPI (>= 0.8.0) and RtMIDI (>=2.1.0) if needed:

brew install hidapi libusb rtmidi

If you want to build the python wrapper, you'll need to install Boost.python:

brew install boost --with-python
brew install boost-python

And if you want to build the documentation, you'll need to install Doxygen:

brew install doxygen

Clone this repository locally and create a build subfolder:

git clone https://github.com/shaduzlabs/cabl.git
cd cabl && mkdir build && cd build

Now launch CMake, build and (eventually) install:

cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Please have a look at the CMake appendix for more CMake options.

Linux

Make sure the following packages/applications are installed:

• CMake (>=3.4)
• Clang (>= 3.7) or GCC (>= 4.9)

Then install libUSB (>=1.0.20), HIDAPI (>= 0.8.0) and RtMIDI (>=2.1.0) if needed (depending on your linux distribution and dependency manager, the command below might look slightly different):

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libhidapi-dev librtmidi-dev

If you want to build the python wrapper, you'll need to install Boost.python:

sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev

And if you want to build the documentation, you'll need to install Doxygen:

sudo apt-get install doxygen

Clone this repository locally and create a build subfolder:

git clone https://github.com/shaduzlabs/cabl.git
cd cabl && mkdir build && cd build

Now launch CMake, build and (eventually) install:

cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Please have a look at the CMake appendix for more CMake options.

Windows

Make sure the following packages/applications are installed:

• CMake (>=3.4)
• Visual Studio 2015 or above

If you want to build the documentation, you'll need to install Doxygen.

Clone this repository locally and create a build subfolder:

git clone https://github.com/shaduzlabs/cabl.git
cd cabl
mkdir build
cd build

Now launch CMake:

cmake ..

If all worked fine, you shoould end up with several VS project files and a solution (cabl.sln).

Please have a look at the CMake appendix for more CMake options.

Appendix

CMake options

By default, CMake is configured to build only the static version of the library. You can override this setting using:

• BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=[ON|OFF]
• BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=[ON|OFF] For example, if you want to build both the shared and the static library, you'll need to write:

cmake -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ..

On Windows LibUSB, HIDAPI and RtMIDI are downloaded from the respective repositories and built locally in the build subfolder, so you don't need to have them installed on the system. If for some reason you want the same behavior on Linux or OSX, you can override CABL_FORCE_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES (default is OFF) and set it to ON.

cmake -DCABL_FORCE_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES=ON ..