eliot/INSTALL
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Summary
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This file contains instructions on how to buid Eliot on various platforms.
In case of compilation problem, you can send a mail to the eliot-dev@nongnu.org
mailing-list.
1) General information: useful information for any platform
2) Linux/Unix build
3) Windows build
4) Mac OS X build
1) General information
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If you build Eliot from a CVS snapshot, you need to run ./bootstrap to generate
the configure script. This is not needed when building from a release tarball.
In the following, do not forget that the ./configure command can take options.
Run ./configure --help to have the list of available options.
Here are the external dependencies of Eliot, with a link to the relevant website.
You need to install them (at least the mandatory ones) before building Eliot.
Note that the OS-specific instructions may contain hints on how to install them easily.
- libboost (mandatory): http://www.boost.org/
--> Used for many things
- libarabica (mandatory): http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/arabica
--> Used for saving/loading games
You can use any XML back-end supported by Arabica (like expat, or libxml2)
- libconfig (optional): http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/
--> Used for saving/loading preferences
- Qt (optional, but recommended): http://qt.nokia.com/
--> Used for the graphical interface (see below)
- libncursesw (optional): http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
--> Used for the ncurses interface (see below)
There are in fact several interfaces to Eliot:
- one in text mode: mostly useful to debug Eliot
- one using the ncursesw library: nice and almost complete, but not really
graphical
- a Qt interface: the best interface to use, it supports all the features.
This one is enabled by default if Qt development files are detected, but
you can force it with --enable-qt
These interfaces can be enabled or disabled at configuration time. Example:
./configure --disable-text --enable-ncurses --enable-qt
2) Linux/Unix build
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On Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu), the following command should install
the needed dependencies (you may need to adjust the version numbers):
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libconfig++8-dev libncursesw5-dev
In addition, you need to download and build libarabica (this is straight-forward).
To build Eliot, you only have to run the following command:
./configure && make
Then, as root:
make install
3) Windows build
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There are 2 ways to proceed:
* cross-compilation from a Linux host, using the mingw32 cross-compiler
* directly on Windows, using Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)
Only the cross-compilation is officially supported (but adapting these
instructions for Cygwin shouldn't be too hard; patches welcome!).
Here are the steps for the cross-compilation:
* install the build environment (this step is not documented here,
as it is out of the scope of this document)
* build and install dependencies:
The Makefile in the 'extras/contrib' directory should be able to do it for you:
cd extras/contrib && make all
Eliot dependencies will be downloaded and cross-compiled.
The dependencies are installed in 'extras/contrib/inst'
* build Eliot:
- if you don't have the 'configure' script, generate it:
./bootstrap
- because of a bug in gettext, you may need to apply a little patch to the files
installed in the 'intl' directory:
- download the patch here (link in the top-left-hand corner)
http://www.koders.com/noncode/fid46DF595700FEB564B6EF45BFF55067F95DCF0420.aspx
- apply the patch:
patch -p2 < gettext-win32.patch
- configure with the following command:
export INST=`pwd`/extras/contrib/inst && \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${INST}/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}" \
CPPFLAGS=-I${INST}/include LDFLAGS=-L${INST}/lib \
CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++ \
./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux \
--with-boost=${INST}
- to compile, run 'make', possibly followed with 'make install'
- run 'make package-win32-zip' to get everything packed up in a nice .zip
4) Mac OS X build
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* Installing dependencies can be done easily using MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/):
sudo port install libconfig-hr
sudo port install boost
sudo port install arabica
sudo port install qt4-mac
* Configure: you can use the following command (assuming the dependencies are installed in /opt/local):
CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include/libxml2 -I/opt/local/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib" \
LIBS="-lxml2" \
./configure --enable-qt --disable-text
* You may need to remove the moc files manually:
rm qt/*.moc.cpp
* To compile, run 'make'
* Then, to get a ready to use .dmg file, run 'make package-macosx-dmg'