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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ duplicated effort (and to make sure that you aren't basing your work on interfaces that are expected to change). There are mailing list archives available at -http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/ and +http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/ and http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/ There is also an #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ evolution" at the command line), and in the --help strings (run The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution. + PROBLEMS BUILDING EVOLUTION --------------------------- @@ -56,8 +57,6 @@ to make it any easier until then. GENERAL PRINCIPLES ------------------ -[FIXME: This section is badly out of date.] - First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME install, or into a new prefix. Installing everything into the same @@ -98,30 +97,61 @@ ${prefix}/bin in your PATH and ${prefix}/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. DEPENDENCIES ------------ -In order to compile Evolution, you need all the GNOME 2.0 (or later) -core libraries to be installed on your system. +The following required libraries are available in GNOME CVS, under the +given names. Most (but not all) of them are also available as +tarballs on ftp.gnome.org or one of the Ximian mirrors listed at +http://ximian.com/mirrors.html. + +If installing from packages, remember that you need both the runtime +and -devel packages for each library. + + - GNU intltool 0.18 + + - scrollkeeper - 0.1.4 or later + + - gnome-xml - 1.8.17 or later in the 1.0 series, but not from the 2.0 + series (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag "LIB_XML_1_BRANCH".) + + - gnome-print - 0.35 or later + + - gdk-pixbuf - 0.18.0 or later + + - ORBit - 0.5.8 or later (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the + tag "orbit-stable-0-5".) + + - oaf - 0.6.10 or later (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag + "oaf-stable-0-6") + + *** If you are using oaf from CVS, you should use the flag + *** "--disable-more-warnings" when you configure, or it may fail to + *** build. + + - gnome-vfs - 1.0.5 or later (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use + the tag "gnome-vfs-1-0") + + *** If you are using gnome-vfs from CVS, you should use the flag + *** "--disable-more-warnings" when configuring, or it may fail to + *** build. + + - libglade - 0.14 or later + + - bonobo - 1.0.3 or later -Evolution also requires libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui 2.2 (which -are part of GNOME 2.2); so if you are compiling against a GNOME 2.0 -development platform, you will also need to install these libraries. -If you are compiling against GNOME 2.2, you don't need to do so. -libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui are available from -ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources. + *** Note that bonobo must be installed with the same --prefix as + *** either gnome-libs or evolution for the Makefiles to work + *** properly. -In addition to the GNOME development libraries, Evolution depends on -the following packages: + - bonobo-conf - 1.0.16 or later - - gal - 1.99.2 or later + - gal (GNOME Application Library) - 0.21 or later - - gtkhtml - 3.0.1 or later + - gtkhtml - 1.1.5 or later - - libsoup - 1.99.12 or later + - SOUP - 0.7.x -All these libraries are available from -ftp://ftp.gnome.or/pub/GNOME/sources , or can be fetched from GNOME -CVS (just check out the trunk). + *** If you are compiling from CVS, grab the soup-0-7 branch. -Other dependencies: +Other non-GNOME Dependencies: - Berkeley's libdb - 3.1.17 |