Compile instructions (openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed) - Git

This page contains only the compilation instructions that are specific to openSUSE distributions.

Install the tools required for building MuseScore:


sudo zypper install -y git gcc7 gcc-c++ make cmake


Install the dependencies required by building MuseScore:


sudo zypper install -y alsa-devel libpulse-devel libjack-devel portaudio-devel libQt5Core-devel \
libQt5Gui-devel libQt5Network-devel libQt5Test-devel libQt5QuickControls2-devel \
libQt5Xml-devel libqt5-qtsvg-devel libQt5Sql-devel libQt5Widgets-devel \
libQt5PrintSupport-devel libQt5Concurrent-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel libqt5-linguist-devel \
libQt5Help5 libqt5-qttools-devel libqt5-qtwebengine-devel libmp3lame-devel \
libsndfile-devel portmidi-devel libvorbis-devel


Remark regarding qmake

On openSUSE, the tool qmake is refering to the Qt4 version of this tool. However, since MuseScore is using Qt5, the tool qmake-qt5 should be used!
This can be done by editing the file build/FindQt5.cmake and change line 38
find_program(QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE qmake)
into
find_program(QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE qmake-qt5)

An alternative is to create a script qmake in you path with the contents:

#!/bin/bash --noprofile
exec qmake-qt5 ${*}

Compiling the code

Now follow the generic instructions for compiling on Linux.

Tested on

These instructions are tested on
* openSUSE 15.1
* openSUSE Tumbleweed as per September 9th, 2019

Note on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Please note openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release with the most recent release of the used packages. At this moment (September 12th, 2019) the installed version of Qt5 is Qt5 5.13.1. This version causes several compile warnings but the resulting executable runs.
To use the recommended version of Qt5, installed the required Qt packages from another source, e.g. the openSUSE download site.