Realtime Metronome

NTU MA4830 Realtime Software Major Project AY20/21

• Generate a precise, uninterrupted, and regular beat
• Accept changes to beat rates in beats/minute via the keyboard in real-time
• Load and save metronome's setting into a configuration file

Table of Contents

1. Getting started
2. Prerequisites
3. Installing
4. Run

1. Getting started

Welcome to Realtime Metronome project! There are just a few steps to get you started with developing!

2. Prerequisites

1. Compute
   • Any computer
2. Software package
   • gcc >= 7.5.0 (for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

3. Installing

To install gcc in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, run

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gcc libc6-dev --no-install-recommends

4. Run

• To compile the program

  • On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    gcc -o main main.c -lrt -lpthread

  • On QNX 6.XX

    cc -o main main.c

• To run the executable

  ./main

• To run the executable with loading & saving the metronome's setting into a configuration file

  ./main --config config.txt