4 General installation instructions can be found in INSTALL. The following
5 aim to give a quick overview and some help for specific systems. Documentation
6 for bookloupe itself can be found in doc/bookloupe.txt and for the test
7 framework in doc/loupe-test.txt.
12 You should be able to use the standard:
18 If you get an error about no package 'glib-2.0' found, then you need to
19 install the development package for glib2. Under Fedora, RHEL and friends
22 % sudo yum install gcc pkgconfig glib2-devel
24 Under Debian, Ubuntu and friends that would be:
26 % sudo apt-get install gcc pkgconfig glib2-devel
31 It should be possible to use MSYS (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS) to build
32 on a Windows machine. You'll need a copy of the development package for
33 glib and its dependencies from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php.
35 It's much easier to build using a cross-compiler from Linux, if you have
36 access to such a system. Under Fedora, RHEL and friends you can do this
39 % sudo yum install mingw32-gcc pkgconfig mingw32-glib2-static \
40 mingw32-gettext-static mingw32-iconv-static
41 % ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --disable-shared \
42 --bindir=/bookloupe --datadir=/
45 % make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/build
47 The contents of the build/bookloupe directory can then be copied to a
48 Microsoft Windows machine.
50 Depending on the version of mingw32-gcc you use, you may need to specify a
51 different host type. If you're not sure look and see what the cross-compiler
52 is called (eg., i686-pc-mingw32-gcc) and use the prefix as the host type.
57 The least intrusive means to build on a Mac is to use Homebrew:
59 http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
61 Install Homebrew according to its instructions.
63 If you are building bookloupe for your own use, you can use dynamic linking
68 and then install bookloupe using:
74 If you want to build bookloupe for other people to use, you will probably
75 want to link staticly. To do this you need to edit the formula for glib
76 and each of its dependencies (gettext and libffi) using something like:
80 Each time find the args statement which includes --prefix and insert
81 --disable-shared,for example change:
83 args = ["--disable-dependency-tracking", "--disable-rebuilds",
89 args = ["--disable-dependency-tracking", "--disable-rebuilds",
98 before installing bookloupe as normal, but with the extra flag to configure:
100 $ ./configure --disable-shared
104 Note that if you have previously used dynamic linking this may not work.
105 (Homebrew doesn't seem to create .la files in a form that libtool can use
106 when it is asked to prefer static libraries to dynamic ones.) Removing the
107 dynamic libraries first will solve this problem.
109 It may also be possible to use fink or macports.