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This chapter explains how to compile libinfinity on a UNIX-like operating system such as Linux. On Windows, you can pretty much follow the same instructions once you have set up a MinGW/MSYS build environment and installed the necessary dependencies to the correct locations. This document does not cover how to do this but might in the future. It is also possible to build libinfinity using the Microsoft Compiler and Visual Studio IDE but there are no project files so far.
The first thing to do is to check whether all dependencies of libinfinity are installed. The following list shows what packages are required to be present on your system prior to building libinfinity:
libxml2
glib-2.0 >= 2.16
gnutls >= 1.7.2
gsasl >= 0.2.21
gtk+ >= 2.12 (optional)
avahi-client (optional)
libdaemon (optional)
Most if not all of them are most likely available in the package manager of your operating system vendor. It is much more convenient to obtain them from there than building them on your own.
The next step is to obtain the current source code for libinfinity. Point your
web browser to
http://releases.0x539.de/libinfinity and grab the latest
.tar.gz
file available, or exactly the version you want if
you are looking for a specific one. Then unpack the tarball. On the command
line this can be done using the following command:
tar xvfz libinfinity-0.4.tar.gz
After unpacking, descend into the newly created directory and run the
configure
script there. This performs several checks to
adapt the build for your specific operating system and environment. The script
can be passed several command-line arguments to alter the build. For example,
the --prefix
argument specifies the directory
libinfinity will be installed into after the build. It defaults to
/usr/local
but you might want to install it to a
different place, such as /opt/libinfinity
. In that case
run the following:
./configure --prefix=/opt/libinfinity
To get a list of all possible arguments run
configure
with the --help
argument. If you do not want to change the installation path simply omit the
--prefix=/opt/libinfinity
in the command above.
When all dependencies are installed correctly the
configure
script will run smoothly and end up with a
status summary of what parts of libinfinity will or will not be built. If
there are errors you need to fix them (for examply by installing a missing
dependency) and run configure
again. After it ran it
created a Makefile
and you can build the package via:
make
This might take some time but it is not supposed to produce an error. If it
does something might be wrong with your build setup that
configure
was unable to detect. When make finished
install the package using:
make install
Depending on the installation directory you chose with the
--prefix
argument to configure you might need
superuser privileges for this step.