Add clear build instructions

[maelp]

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Originally posted by @maelp in #17

Could be nice to have complete build instructions (see for instance the linked comment for details on how I managed to build it)

[Beingpax]

Yeah, sure. I think whisper.cpp has updated their build instructions as well. So it is different than what I used previously.

These instructions are simpler and easier to implement. So I'll definitely update it.

[maelp]

Perhaps instead of having the user build whisper.cpp you could use https://swiftpackageindex.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper (don't know if it's up-to-date)

[Beingpax]

I don't think it's up to date. Even when I started building VoiceInk for the first time, I was thinking of using Swift Whisper, but it was not up to date.

That's why I didn't use it.

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Perhaps instead of having the user build whisper.cpp you could use https://swiftpackageindex.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper (don't know if it's up-to-date)

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[maelp]

Indeed, but if you look at his code, it's quite clean, he's doing the "submodule" thing to include whisper (we should just put a more recent version) and symlinking the proper files from there so they are found easily... I guess it shouldn't be too hard to either update his code, or use the same stuff, but in VoiceInk repo https://github.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper

[maelp]

Here he is using a submodule to directly include whisper.cpp in his repo

[maelp]

Here he seems to symlink the proper files to find them directly without drag-and-dropping the framework

but perhaps we could just:

• add a git submodule for whisper
• tell people to build it like you did in the README
• then just add a symlink for the .xcframework so people don't need to do the drag-and-drop

[maelp]

If you look at the fork of his repo, there are a few that have been recently updated, like https://github.com/ChippStudio/SwiftWhisper, perhaps those work better

https://github.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper/forks

[Beingpax]

I will take a look into this tomorrow.

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If you look at the fork of his repo, there are a few that have been recently updated, like https://github.com/ChippStudio/SwiftWhisper, perhaps those work better

https://github.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper/forks

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If you look at the fork of his repo, there are a few that have been recently updated, like https://github.com/ChippStudio/SwiftWhisper, perhaps those work better

https://github.com/exPHAT/SwiftWhisper/forks

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[iAdanos]

@Beingpax, please consider updating build instructions, the last version I managed to build using existing one is 1.34, newer ones do produce errors. :(

[tamsky]

Thanks to @slumdev88 and their fixes here, I'm again able to build past v1.34, and just built v1.53.

Spotted while randomly reading their contributed PR https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk/pull/163.

They expertly update parts of //VoiceInk/Services/NativeAppleTranscriptionService.swift which appears to resolve all our build errors.