<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <h1 class="sectionedit526"><a name="building_the_geda_gaf_git_repository_version" id="building_the_geda_gaf_git_repository_version">Building the gEDA/gaf git repository version</a></h1> <div class="level1"> </div> <!-- EDIT526 SECTION "Building the gEDA/gaf git repository version" [1-60] --> <h2 class="sectionedit527"><a name="general_instructions" id="general_instructions">General Instructions</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> To build the git repository version of gEDA/gaf, follow these instructions: </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Download and install all the following dependencies. You will probably want to use your distributions package management system (such as apt-get or yum) to install the dependencies.</div> <ul> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> A C compiler and C standard library (<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://gcc.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow"> GCC </a> and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" rel="nofollow"> GNU Libc </a> are recommended)</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://flex.sourceforge.net/" class="urlextern" title="http://flex.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow"> flex </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/" rel="nofollow"> GNU awk </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake" rel="nofollow"> automake </a> 1.6.x or later</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/" rel="nofollow"> autoconf </a> 2.60 or later</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/" rel="nofollow"> libtool </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="nofollow"> texinfo </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki" class="urlextern" title="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki" rel="nofollow"> pkg-config </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow"> gettext </a> 0.16 or later</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile%22" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile"" rel="nofollow"> guile </a> 1.8.x (1.6.x is no longer supported)</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gtk.org/" rel="nofollow"> gtk+ </a> 2.10.x or later</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html" rel="nofollow"> groff </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://git-scm.com" class="urlextern" title="http://git-scm.com" rel="nofollow"> git </a> 1.6.x or later</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" rel="nofollow"> cvs </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info" class="urlextern" title="http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info" rel="nofollow"> freedesktop.org MIME info database </a> current</div> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases" class="urlextern" title="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases" rel="nofollow"> freedesktop.org utilities for manipulating .desktop files </a> current</div> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> It is pretty important to have all of the above programs (especially automake, autoconf, libtool, gtk, and guile) installed in the same prefix (like /usr or /usr/local). If you do not have them all installed in the same prefix, then building and installing gEDA/gaf is much harder.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the <a href="geda-scm.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-scm.html"> gEDA SCM page </a></div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Build the software by executing the following commands inside of the newly cloned git repository:<pre class="code">$ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda $ make $ make install</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If the above commands execute without <strong>any</strong> error messages, then you have successfully built and installed gEDA/gaf. If you encounter any errors, be sure to read the README and INSTALL files contained within the tarball.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> You can now run the various programs in the gEDA suite. Please read the toplevel README file which describes what is available.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> gschem is the schematic capture program and can be run by executing: <code>PATH_WHERE_gEDA_GAF_IS_INSTALLED/bin/gschem</code></div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> It is recommended that you add <code>PATH_WHERE_gEDA_GAF_IS_INSTALLED/bin</code> to your PATH environment variable (typically done by modifying one of the following files: <code>$HOME/.bashrc</code>, <code>$HOME/.bash_profile</code>, or <code>$HOME/.profile</code>).</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> It is highly recommended that you read the gEDA documentation at this point. You can access the gEDA documentation by running gschem and select Help/gEDA Documentation… from the top menu.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If you want to get gEDA/gaf repository commit log e-mail messages, please subscribe to the geda-cvs mailing list. Please see the <a href="geda-mailinglists.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-mailinglists.html"> mailing lists page </a> for info on how to do this.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> For build problems, please be sure to read the <a href="geda-mailinglists.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-mailinglists.html"> mailing list archives </a> or <a href="http://www.geda-project.org/search.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.geda-project.org/search.html" rel="nofollow"> search </a> this site. Also look at the <a href="start.html" class="wikilink1" title="start.html"> gEDA wiki </a> for more hints.</div> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- EDIT527 SECTION "General Instructions" [61-3592] --> <h2 class="sectionedit528"><a name="distro-specific_information" id="distro-specific_information">Distro-specific information</a></h2> <div class="level2"> </div> <!-- EDIT528 SECTION "Distro-specific information" [3593-3633] --> <h3 class="sectionedit529"><a name="debian-based" id="debian-based">Debian-based</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> This is tested on <a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://crunchbanglinux.org/" rel="nofollow">Crunchbang Linux</a> but should work on Debian and Ubuntu also. </p> <ol> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Install the build dependencies for the packaged version of gEDA:<pre class="code">$ sudo apt-get build-dep geda</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Install the texinfo package:<pre class="code">$ sudo apt-get install texinfo</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If you want to generate doxygen output, install it:<pre class="code">$ sudo apt-get install doxygen</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the <a href="geda-scm.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-scm.html"> gEDA SCM topic </a>.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> From inside the newly cloned repository, build gEDA/gaf:<pre class="code">$ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda [--enable-doxygen] $ make $ make install</pre> </div> </li> </ol> </div> <!-- EDIT529 SECTION "Debian-based" [3634-4360] --> <h3 class="sectionedit530"><a name="macports" id="macports">MacPorts</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> <a href="http://www.macports.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.macports.org/" rel="nofollow">MacPorts</a> is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading open-source software on the Mac <acronym title="Operating System">OS</acronym> X operating system. MacPorts has a packaged installation of gEDA/gaf but occasionally one needs a more up-to-date version (such as that from git). The easiest way to build from git HEAD on MacPorts is to install the packaged version (at time of writing, 1.6.2) as a way of bringing most of the dependencies into the MacPorts tree. </p> <ol> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.macports.org/install.php" class="urlextern" title="http://www.macports.org/install.php" rel="nofollow">Install MacPorts</a>.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Install the MacPorts-packaged version of gEDA/gaf. As a happy side-effect, this brings in the build prerequisites:<pre class="code">$ sudo port install geda-gaf</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If you want to generate doxygen output, install doxygen:<pre class="code">$ sudo port install doxygen</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the <a href="geda-scm.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-scm.html"> gEDA SCM topic </a>.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> From inside the newly cloned repository, build gEDA/gaf:<pre class="code">$ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda --disable-update-xdg-database [--enable-doxygen] $ make $ make install</pre> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> To run the software, you need to set an environment variable to allow Guile to load its shared libraries:<pre class="code">$ export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib $ gschem</pre> </div> </li> </ol> </div> <!-- EDIT530 SECTION "MacPorts" [4361-] --></body> </html>
