[SOLVED] Compiling Fron Source

[ibuclaw]

I recommend that you set the install folder to your /usr/local directory, so the installation doesn't get mixed up with the main Ubuntu files.

./configure PREFIX=/usr/local/
make
sudo make install

Regards
Iain

[WorldTripping]

I recommend that you set the install folder to your /usr/local directory, so the installation doesn't get mixed up with the main Ubuntu files.

./configure PREFIX=/usr/local/
make
sudo make install

Regards
Iain

Ah, OK, thanks.

I would never have considered doing this.

Cheers.

[Joeb454]

I should note that it's a good idea to keep the .deb somewhere (I have ~/compiled for that). Just in case

[WorldTripping]

OK,

So here are the compile errors that I'm getting.

The missing dependency errors seem to be near the bottom of this log.

Can't figure this one out by myself !

simon@laptop-dell:~/fsv-0.9$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for comparison_fn_t... yes
checking for st_blocks in struct stat... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for working fnmatch... yes
checking for strftime... yes
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for mktime... yes
checking for strcspn... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strspn... yes
checking for strtod... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for scandir... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for off_t... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking for argz.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for nl_types.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for __argz_count... yes
checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for gettext in libc... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking whether catgets can be used... no
checking for msgfmt... (cached) no
checking for gmsgfmt... no
checking for xgettext... :
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.1... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: Cannot find proper GTK+ version

Thanks.

[sdennie]

You may run into more of these problems but, this one can probably fixed with:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

[WorldTripping]

Cool,

Thanks.

I'll try it in a bit.

[sdennie]

I find the easiest way to solve this sort of problem when configure complains about stuff is to go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager and search for the thing you are missing. You'll likely need to just install the -dev package. If you are just compiling a custom package that already exists in the Ubuntu repos, this is a fantastic command:

sudo apt-get build-dep name_of_the_package

[ramjet_1953]

Another thing that is often overlooked is that if you are "rolling your own" package, you will also need to download the .dev packages for many of the dependencies.
i.e. If the package you want to compile requires the afflib package, it will also almost certainly need the afflib.dev package.

Regards,
Roger

[WorldTripping]

You may run into more of these problems but, this one can probably fixed with:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

Turns out that I needed libgtk1.2-dev due to an incompatability.

I'm now getting Mesa errors, even though I installed all of the relevant libraries.

This eye candy is taking up too much of my time, so I'm giving up.

Thanks for everyones help.

Cheers.

[WorldTripping]

For anyone interested this was resolved by adding;

gtkglarea

This site had the answer, and it also has a couple of other rather cool 3D file visualisers.

http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/7...e_Browsers.pdf