Fortunately QB64 is one of the "easiest" programs to compile from source. Especially on a popular platform such as Debian or anything based on it, or Fedora/Red Hat family.
Lua is even easier to come up with out of the tarball from the original developers, but the libraries I've seen available for some of the distros...
This morning I got into Debian Bullseye to compile Milky Tracker v1.03. (Music software that emulates the venerable Fasttracker II.) Had to go get "cmake" and a few dependencies actually used by the app that was to be built. The result is a file that could be run from "bash" command line but confuses the desktop processor, the latter thinks the program is a shared library. This was one of my few successful attempts to compile from source.
In the short time I had Ubuntu Studio installed I attempted to run a project which produced several music plug-ins by one author. This was stuff that I found out later it couldn't be used easily. The compilation hung the system because it ran out of memory, and none of my attempts availed to fix it. "Use make -j8 if you run out of memory" was in the instructions but it was useless. Oh well.
Lua is even easier to come up with out of the tarball from the original developers, but the libraries I've seen available for some of the distros...
This morning I got into Debian Bullseye to compile Milky Tracker v1.03. (Music software that emulates the venerable Fasttracker II.) Had to go get "cmake" and a few dependencies actually used by the app that was to be built. The result is a file that could be run from "bash" command line but confuses the desktop processor, the latter thinks the program is a shared library. This was one of my few successful attempts to compile from source.
In the short time I had Ubuntu Studio installed I attempted to run a project which produced several music plug-ins by one author. This was stuff that I found out later it couldn't be used easily. The compilation hung the system because it ran out of memory, and none of my attempts availed to fix it. "Use make -j8 if you run out of memory" was in the instructions but it was useless. Oh well.