Gwion is a programming language, aimed at making music
-**strongly** inspired by [chuck](http://chuck.stanford.edu/), but adding a bunch *high-level* features:
+**strongly** inspired by [ChucK](http://chuck.stanford.edu/), but adding a bunch *high-level* features:
templating, first-class functions and more.
It aims to be simple, small,
``` sh
git clone https://github.com/fennecdjay/Gwion
cd Gwion
-git submodule update --init util ast plug
+git submodule update --init --recursive
make
```
-### Configuring (optionnal)
+### Configuring (optional)
You can get a list of config files to tweak with
``` sh
find . -name "config.mk"
```
make -C util clean
make -C ast clean
-make -C plug clean
make clean
make
```
-> Besides develloper options, you migth want to check *USE_DOUBLE*, in util/config.mk, which set the floating point size (float or double).
+> Besides developer options, you migth want to check *USE_DOUBLE*, in util/config.mk, which set the floating point size (float or double).
+> Note that the option you choose must match how you built your soundpipe library (more on soundpipe later).
## Executing your first code (hello_world.gw):
```
Congratulations!! You ran your first gwion program.
+## Making Sound
+Gwion relies on plugins for most of its language features, including all those that make sound. Plugins are located in the subdirectories of
+`plug`. To get some sounds going under linux using jack sound server, you can build the plugins `Jack`, `Soundpipe`, and `Modules`.
+
+Starting from the Gwion base directory, to build `Jack`:
+```
+cd plug/Jack
+make
+```
+This will give you a shared object file, `Jack.so`. The default place Gwion will look for plugins is in a subdir of your home directory
+named `.gwplug`. So create that directory and move `Jack.so` there:
+```
+mkdir ~/.gwplug
+mv Jack.so ~/.gwplug
+```
+Repeat for the other plugins mentioned. The `Soundpipe` plugin requires the soundpipe library, which we hope to have build seamlessly for you when you build the `Soundpipe` module, but we're not quite there yet. Please ask for help if this isn't working.
+
+When all those plugin `.so` files are in your `~/.gwplug` directory, you should be able to run a Gwion program that makes sound! In `plug/Modules` there's a `test.gw` program which plays a sine wave for 5 seconds. If the `gwion` you built is still in the base dir of your cloned repo, from the
+`plug/Modules` subdirectory you should be able to run `../../gwion -d jack test.gw` and hear some sound!
+
## Installation
It's a good idea to install Gwion now that you have tried it out. Use the following command to install it