Compiling from source
Compiling OpenUtau can be done easily.
You will need the .NET 6.0 SDK.
For Windows and Mac you can get it here
On Ubuntu, Debian, or any derivatives (e.g. Linux Mint):
sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-6.0
On an Arch-based distro:
sudo pacman -S dotnet-sdk
For other instructions see the link above.
You will also neet Git. Windows | Mac | Linux
Once you have the prerequisites set up, run the following command to clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/stakira/OpenUtau.git
Visual Studio is an IDE for .NET that supports Windows and MacOS.
Download and install Visual Studio Community 2022 from Visual Studio Official Website. Choose ".NET Desktop Development" workload when installing.
Open "OpenUtau.sln" with Visual Studio.
Choose "OpenUtau" and click the green ▶ icon to run.
Visual Studio Code (aka. VSCode) is a lightweight code editor that supports Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Download and install VSCode from VSCode official website
Launch VSCode, search and install the C# extension.
Open the directory where you've downloaded the source code of OpenUtau and open any .cs file. A notification saying "Required assets to build and debug are missing from 'OpenUtau'. Add them?" will pop up. Click "Yes".
Open .vscode/launch.json, change the "OpenUtau.dll" to the executable file name on your OS, like "OpenUtau.exe" on windows.
Click "Run → Start Debugging"
Navigate to the directory via command line
cd OpenUtau
And finally, to compile, run the following commands:
dotnet restore OpenUtau
dotnet build OpenUtau
The executable files will be in the directory OpenUtau/OpenUtau/bin/Debug/net6.0