Compilation & Installation
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How to compile and install version 2
Requirements
Development Packages
In order to compile
Gambas, you must install the following development packages.
The actual name of these development packages depends on your distribution, so please refer to the distribution specific pages above for more details.
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Component
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Requirements (libraries or pkg-config module)
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Compilation
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gcc g++ automake autoconf libtool >= 2.0
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Interpreter
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libffi
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gb.compress.bzlib2
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libbz2.so
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gb.compress.zlib
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libz.so
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gb.cairo
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cairo >= 1.6.0 cairo-ft >= 1.6.0
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gb.crypt
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libcrypt.so
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gb.db.mysql
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libmysqlclient.so, libz.so
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gb.db.odbc
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libodbc.so
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gb.db.postgresql
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libpq.so
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gb.db.sqlite2
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libsqlite.so
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gb.db.sqlite3
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libsqlite3.so
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gb.dbus
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dbus-1
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gb.desktop
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libXtst.so
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gb.desktop.gnome
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gnome-keyring-1
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gb.gsl
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libgsl.so libgslcblas.so
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gb.gtk
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gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16 librsvg-2.0 >= 2.14.3 cairo >= 1.6.0 cairo-ft >= 1.6.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 >= 2.10
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gb.gtk.opengl
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gtkglext-1.0
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gb.image.io
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gdk-pixbuf
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gb.image.imlib
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imlib
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gb.jit
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LLVM >= 3.1
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gb.libxml
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libxml-2.0
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gb.media
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gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.31 gstreamer-interfaces-0.10 >= 0.10.31
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gb.mime
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gmime-2.4 or gmime-2.6
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gb.ncurses
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ncurses.so panel.so
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gb.net.curl
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libcurl >= 7.13
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gb.net.smtp
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glib-2.0
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gb.opengl gb.opengl.glsl
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libGL.so libGLEW.so
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gb.opengl.glu
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libGLU.so
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gb.pcre
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libpcre.so
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gb.pdf
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poppler >= 0.5
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gb.qt4 gb.qt4.ext gb.qt4.opengl gb.qt4.webkit
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All Qt4 libraries >= Qt 4.5
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gb.sdl
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libSDL.so libSDL_ttf.so libGL.so libGLEW.so
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gb.sdl.sound
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libSDL.so, libSDL_mixer.so
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gb.v4l
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libjpeg.so libpng.so Video4Linux >= 2.0
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gb.xml.xslt
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libxml-2.0 libxslt
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Other requirements
You must have the right to write to
/tmp, otherwise
Gambas will not work.
The following versions of GNU tools are needed:
- automake 1.11.1
- autoconf 2.68
- libtool 2.4
Compiling with older version may or may not work!
How to compile and install Gambas 3
Source package configuration
When you are sure that everything is downloaded, type the following
magic sentences in a shell.
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'$' represents your shell prompt, and '...' are the
messages printed during the configuration and compilation.
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First, enter the source top-level directory.
$ cd <path/to/source/directory>
Then, type that to create the configuration scripts.
Then type that to analyze the current system and configure the package:
If a library or a development package is missing, then you will be
warned that some components are disabled.
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There are more 'configure' specific explanations in the INSTALL file located in the top-level source directory.
I invite you to read them.
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Compilation
If everything is configured without error, then run this command to compile the program:
Installation
If everything compiles without error, then enter this command to install everything:
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You must be root to install Gambas on your system.
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$ su -c "make install"
Password:
...
or
$ sudo make install
Password:
...
Troubleshooting
If you did several successive compilations, after having updated the source from the subversion
repository for example, and if something fails during
all this process, you can try to "reconfigure" the configuration scripts by typing the following command:
Then you can run
./configure -C again
If it does not work, I need to know what happened exactly.
To do so, type the following command :
$ ( ./configure -C; make; make install ) > output.txt 2>&1
And send me the file "output.txt" by mail, with every other
detail about your computer and your distribution you find
useful.
Instructions for specific distributions
The Development Environment
The
Gambas IDE is made with Gambas. In order to compile and use it, you need to compile the following components:
Compiling from Subversion
To compile the latest development version of
Gambas from the subversion repository,
read the
How To Deal With Subversion page.