Compilation & Installation

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Contents

- Requirements

- Development Packages
- Other requirements

- How to compile and install Gambas 3

- Source package configuration
- Compilation
- Installation
- Troubleshooting

- Instructions for specific distributions

- Arch Linux
- Ubuntu

- The Development Environment
- Compiling from Subversion

## 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.

Component | Requirements (libraries or `pkg-config` module)
--- | ---
Compilation | `gcc` `g++` `automake` `autoconf` `libtool >= 2.0`
Interpreter | `libffi`
`gb.compress.bzlib2` | `libbz2.so`
`gb.compress.zlib` | `libz.so`
`gb.cairo` | `cairo >= 1.6.0` `cairo-ft >= 1.6.0`
`gb.crypt` | `libcrypt.so`
`gb.db.mysql` | `libmysqlclient.so`, `libz.so`
`gb.db.odbc` | `libodbc.so`
`gb.db.postgresql` | `libpq.so`
`gb.db.sqlite2` | `libsqlite.so`
`gb.db.sqlite3` | `libsqlite3.so`
`gb.dbus` | `dbus-1`
`gb.desktop` | `libXtst.so`
`gb.desktop.gnome` | `gnome-keyring-1`
`gb.gmp` | `libgmp.so`
`gb.gsl` | `libgsl.so` `libgslcblas.so`
`gb.gtk` | `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`
`gb.gtk.opengl` | `gtkglext-1.0`
`gb.image.io` | `gdk-pixbuf`
`gb.image.imlib` | `imlib`
`gb.jit` | `LLVM >= 3.1`
`gb.libxml` | `libxml-2.0`
`gb.media` | `gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.31` `gstreamer-interfaces-0.10 >= 0.10.31` for Gambas <= 3.4 `gstreamer-1.0` `gstreamer-video-1.0` for Gambas >= 3.5
`gb.mime` | `gmime-2.4` or `gmime-2.6`
`gb.ncurses` | `ncurses.so` `panel.so`
`gb.net.curl` | `libcurl >= 7.13`
`gb.net.smtp` | `glib-2.0`
`gb.opengl` `gb.opengl.glsl` | `libGL.so` `libGLEW.so`
`gb.opengl.glu` | `libGLU.so`
`gb.openssl` | `openssl`
`gb.pcre` | `libpcre.so`
`gb.pdf` | `poppler >= 0.5`
`gb.qt4` `gb.qt4.ext` `gb.qt4.opengl` `gb.qt4.webkit` | All Qt4 libraries >= Qt 4.5
`gb.sdl` | `libSDL.so` `libSDL_ttf.so` `libGL.so` `libGLEW.so`
`gb.sdl.sound` | `libSDL.so`, `libSDL_mixer.so`
`gb.v4l` | `libjpeg.so` `libpng.so` Video4Linux >= 2.0
`gb.xml.xslt` | `libxml-2.0` `libxslt`

### 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.

i | `'$'` represents your shell prompt, and `'...'` are the messages printed during the configuration and compilation.

First, enter the source top-level directory.

    $ cd <path/to/source/directory>

Then, type that to create the configuration scripts.

    $ ./reconf-all

Then type that to analyze the current system and configure the package:

    $ ./configure -C
    ...

If a library or a development package is missing, then you will be warned that some components are disabled.

i | There are more 'configure' specific explanations in the `INSTALL` file located in the top-level source directory. I invite you to read them.

### Compilation

If everything is configured without error, then run this command to compile the program:

    $ make
    ...

### Installation

If everything compiles without error, then enter this command to install everything:

i | You must be `root` to install Gambas on your system.

    $ 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:

    $ ./reconf-all

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

A |  | Arch Linux
D |  | Debian
F |  | Fedora · FreeBSD
M |  | Mageia · Mandriva
O |  | OpenSUSE 10.2
P |  | Pardus
U |  | Ubuntu

## The Development Environment

The Gambas IDE is made with Gambas. In order to compile and use it, you need to compile the following components:

- gb.db
- gb.db.form
- gb.debug
- gb.desktop
- gb.eval
- gb.eval.highlight
- gb.form
- gb.form.dialog
- gb.form.mdi
- gb.image
- gb.image.effect
- gb.qt4
- gb.qt4.ext
- gb.qt4.webkit
- gb.settings

## Compiling from Subversion

To compile the latest development version of Gambas from the subversion repository, read the How To Deal With Subversion page.