Build Ardour from git in Docker

gistfile1.txt

#/bin/sh

set -eux

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"

apt update
apt dist-upgrade -y
apt install -y \
  build-essential \
  git \
  itstool \
  libarchive-dev \
  libasound2-dev \
  libaubio-dev \
  libboost-dev \
  libcppunit-dev \
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
  libdbus-1-dev \
  libfftw3-dev \
  libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
  libjack-dev \
  liblilv-dev \
  liblo-dev \
  liblrdf0-dev \
  librubberband-dev \
  libsamplerate0-dev \
  libserd-dev \
  libsndfile1-dev \
  libsord-dev \
  libsratom-dev \
  libsuil-dev \
  libtag1-dev \
  libudev-dev \
  libusb-1.0-0-dev \
  libwebsockets-dev \
  libxml2-dev \
  lv2-dev \
  pkg-config \
  python \
  vamp-plugin-sdk

rm -rf /build/ardour
git clone --depth=1 git://git.ardour.org/ardour/ardour.git /build/ardour

cd /build/ardour
./waf configure \
  --prefix=/opt \
  --with-backends="jack,alsa,dummy" \
  --libjack=weak \
  --nls \
  --optimize \
  --cxx11 \
  --freedesktop \
  --ptformat \
  --lxvst \
  --no-phone-home
./waf build -v
./waf install --destdir=/build/dist-inst

Prepare it:

mkdir $(pwd)/build/ardour

Copy above script as build.sh to $(pwd)/build/ardour and make it executable:

chmod +x $(pwd)/build/ardour/build.sh

Build it:

docker run --rm --name builder \
  --mount type=bind,source=$HOME/build/ardour,target=/build \
  -it debian:bullseye /build/build.sh

The build result will appear in build/ardour/dist-inst

build/ardour/dist-inst/opt/
└── ardour
    ├── bin
    ├── etc
    │   └── ardour6
    ├── lib
    │   └── ardour6
    │       ├── LV2
    │       │   ├── a-comp.lv2
    │       │   ├── a-delay.lv2
    │       │   ├── a-eq.lv2
    │       │   ├── a-exp.lv2
    │       │   ├── a-fluidsynth.lv2
    │       │   ├── a-reverb.lv2
    │       │   └── reasonablesynth.lv2
    │       ├── backends
    │       ├── engines
    │       ├── panners
    │       ├── surfaces
    │       ├── utils
    │       └── vamp
    └── share
        └── ardour6
            ├── export
            ├── icons
            ├── mcp
            ├── midi_maps
            ├── osc
            ├── patchfiles
            ├── plugin_metadata
            ├── resources
            ├── scripts
            ├── templates
            └── themes

Run Ardour with (after installing to /opt):

/opt/ardour/bin/ardour6