Re:compile procedures

From: Kenneth J.Davis (jeremyd@computer.org)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 12:01:58 EST

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    I assume by the ./configure stuff and PGP signature you
    are running some flavor of Linux; anyway ...

    To compile AbiWord the starting directory
    is 'abi', cd into abi/, read the BUILD* files and then run
    the appropriate commands. Note: for the Head branch (v1.1.x/v2.x) build
    these documents have been updated/merged and placed in abi/docs/build/
    (online in bonsai http://www.abisource.com/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvsroot&module=All and
    http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/source/cvs/abiword-cvs/abi/docs/build/BUILD.html )
    or my Windows biased variant
    http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/source/docs/abi2build.html

    There are several different build systems, the most cross platform
    is the Makefile based one (which is what I use), the ./configure
    based one (which won't work for Windows), and then other platforms/
    compilers may have workspace like files (e.g. MSVC6).
    Start the build procedure in abi and it will automatically
    build the necessary peer[1] libraries.

    [1]peer modules are all those other directories you saw more-or-less
       (some are Abi's docs or runtime files, and not all are for all
        platforms, specifically I believe Unix Systems will use system
        shared libraries instead of peers).

    Hope this helps some. If you need more assistance I'm sure
    someone who actually builds on Linux can be of more help.

    Jeremy Davis
    jeremyd@computer.org

    By the way, I just noticed this was sent to abiword-user, you may
    wish to switch over to abiword-dev for building/compiling/development
    type issues.

    "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@netzon.net> wrote on 10/28/2002 11:03:41 AM:
    >
    >I've grabbed the 18 meg tar ball of the source. Now that I've opened it,
    >I find:
    >
    >ls -l
    >total 20
    >drwxr-xr-x 9 rodney rodney 1024 Oct 27 22:01 abi
    ..
    >
    >with no set guidelines on which directory to start in.. I have gone
    >through all of them, and "./configure" & "make" all of them, but not
    >sure that is the correct way.
    >
    >I've looked through the online FAQ, to no avail.
    >
    >Any tips, suggestions?
    >
    >Thanks
    >
    >--
    >Rodney D. Myers <rdmyers@netzon.net>

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