Build and documentation tweaks

Signed-off-by: falkTX <falktx@falktx.com>

Makefile

@@ -4,8 +4,15 @@
 # Created by falkTX
 #
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Import base definitions
+
+USE_NANOVG_FBO = true
 include dpf/Makefile.base.mk
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build targets
+
 all: cardinal carla deps dgl plugins gen resources
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -13,7 +20,12 @@ all: cardinal carla deps dgl plugins gen resources
 
 PREFIX  ?= /usr/local
 DESTDIR ?=
+
+ifeq ($(BSD),true)
+SYSDEPS ?= true
+else
 SYSDEPS ?= false
+endif
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Carla config

deps/Makefile

@@ -9,12 +9,21 @@ DEP_PATH = $(abspath ../src/Rack/dep)
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Import base definitions
 
+USE_NANOVG_FBO = true
 include ../dpf/Makefile.base.mk
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build config
+
+ifeq ($(BSD),true)
+SYSDEPS ?= true
+else
+SYSDEPS ?= false
+endif
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # custom build flags
 
-BASE_FLAGS += -DZSTDLIB_VISIBILITY=
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../include
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../include/neon-compat
 
@@ -24,6 +33,10 @@ BASE_FLAGS += -ffat-lto-objects
 endif
 endif
 
+ifneq ($(SYSDEPS),true)
+BASE_FLAGS += -DZSTDLIB_VISIBILITY=
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(WASM),true)
 BASE_FLAGS += -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msimd128
 else
@@ -191,7 +204,7 @@ QUICKJS_MAKE_FLAGS += PROGS=libquickjs.a
 ifeq ($(WITH_LTO),true)
 QUICKJS_MAKE_FLAGS += CONFIG_LTO=y
 else
-QUICKJS_MAKE_FLAGS += CONFIG_LTO=n
+QUICKJS_MAKE_FLAGS += CONFIG_LTO=
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(WINDOWS),true)

doc/BUILDING.md

@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ If you are building from a release tarball you do not need to care about git.
 
 ## Build options
 
-Cardinal uses makefiles as build system. So you just got to run `make` within the Cardinal main directory.
+Cardinal uses [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) as build system.  
+So you just got to run `make` within the Cardinal main directory in order to build.
 
-There are a few useful options you can pass as arguments when building.  
+There are a few useful options you can pass as arguments when building though.  
 Use them as `make SOMEOPTION=SOMEVALUE` syntax. You can specify as many options as you want.
 
 Developer related options:
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ Packaging related options:
 
 * `DESTDIR=/path` typical extra install target path (if you are used to packaging, this does what you expect)
 * `PREFIX=/usr` prefix used for installation (note that it **must** be set during build time as well)
+* `NOOPT=true` do not automatically set well-known optimization flags
 * `SKIP_STRIPPING=true` do not automatically strip the binaries
 * `SYSDEPS=true` use jansson, libarchive, samplerate and speexdsp system libraries, instead of vendored
 * `WITH_LTO=true` enable Link-Time-Optimization, which has performance benefits but significantly increases the build time
@@ -36,9 +38,16 @@ Advanced options:
 * `HEADLESS=true` build headless version (without gui), useful for embed systems
 * `STATIC_BUILD=true` skip building Cardinal core plugins that use local resources (e.g. audio file and plugin host)
 
+The commonly used build environment flags such as `CC`, `CXX`, `CFLAGS`, etc are respected and used.
+
 ## FreeBSD
 
-Dependencies for using system libraries, that is, with `SYSDEPS=true`:
+The use of vendored libraries doesn't work on FreeBSD, as such the `SYSDEPS=true` build option is automatically set.  
+This means some dependencies that are optional in other systems are required under FreeBSD.
+
+The use of `gmake` instead of `make` is also required.
+
+Dependencies for using system libraries:
 
 ```
 # common
@@ -47,15 +56,6 @@ sudo pkg install -A dbus libglvnd liblo libsndfile libX11 libXcursor libXext lib
 sudo pkg install -A libarchive libsamplerate jansson speexdsp
 ```
 
-Dependencies for vendored libraries:
-
-```
-# common
-sudo pkg install -A dbus libglvnd liblo libsndfile libX11 libXcursor libXext libXrandr
-# nedeed by vendored libraries
-sudo pkg install -A cmake
-```
-
 ## Linux
 
 There are a few differences between Linux distributions, this document covers the most common ones.  
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Dependencies for vendored libraries:
 # common
 sudo pacman -S dbus libgl liblo libsndfile libx11 libxcursor libxext libxrandr
 # nedeed by vendored libraries
-sudo pacman -S cmake
+sudo pacman -S cmake wget
 ```
 
 ### Debian
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Dependencies for vendored libraries:
 # common
 sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev liblo-dev libsndfile1-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev
 # nedeed by vendored libraries
-sudo apt install cmake
+sudo apt install cmake wget
 ```
 
 ## macOS

plugins/Makefile

@@ -4,18 +4,21 @@
 # Created by falkTX
 #
 
-# --------------------------------------------------------------
-# Build config
-
-PREFIX  ?= /usr/local
-DESTDIR ?=
-SYSDEPS ?= false
-
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Import base definitions
 
+USE_NANOVG_FBO = true
 include ../dpf/Makefile.base.mk
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build config
+
+ifeq ($(BSD),true)
+SYSDEPS ?= true
+else
+SYSDEPS ?= false
+endif
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # List of drwav functions, used in several modules
 
@@ -734,14 +737,15 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(SYSDEPS),true)
 BASE_FLAGS += -DCARDINAL_SYSDEPS
+BASE_FLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags jansson libarchive samplerate speexdsp)
 else
 BASE_FLAGS += -DZSTDLIB_VISIBILITY=
+BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/dep/include
 endif
 
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../src
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/include
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/include/dsp
-BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/dep/include
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/dep/filesystem/include
 # # BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/dep/fuzzysearchdatabase/src
 BASE_FLAGS += -I../src/Rack/dep/glfw/include

src/Makefile

@@ -4,19 +4,21 @@
 # Created by falkTX
 #
 
-# --------------------------------------------------------------
-# Build config
-
-PREFIX  ?= /usr/local
-DESTDIR ?=
-SYSDEPS ?= false
-
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Import base definitions
 
 USE_NANOVG_FBO = true
 include ../dpf/Makefile.base.mk
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build config
+
+ifeq ($(BSD),true)
+SYSDEPS ?= true
+else
+SYSDEPS ?= false
+endif
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Build setup
 

src/Makefile.cardinal.mk

@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
 
 # Must have NAME defined
 
-# --------------------------------------------------------------
-# Build config
-
-PREFIX  ?= /usr/local
-DESTDIR ?=
-SYSDEPS ?= false
-
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Carla stuff
 
@@ -49,8 +42,20 @@ endif # STATIC_BUILD
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Import base definitions
 
+USE_NANOVG_FBO = true
 include ../../dpf/Makefile.base.mk
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------
+# Build config
+
+PREFIX  ?= /usr/local
+
+ifeq ($(BSD),true)
+SYSDEPS ?= true
+else
+SYSDEPS ?= false
+endif
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 # Files to build (DPF stuff)