HOWTO: Building Sodipodi

Hi,

Here, for the benefitis of those who either need or want to build
Sodipodi themselves and need the neccesary dependencies as well, is a
description of the steps needed to download and install Sodipodi.  I
hope this makes it to the web page.  It *really* *should* be there.

Introduction
============

I assume you've downloaded the Sodipodi sources, run ./configure and
found out that you're system is not to speed with the latest and
gratest of the dependencies.

Getting the dependencies
========================

First, ATK, Glib, GTK+ and Pango can be downloaded here:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/

Why this isn't linked to on the Sodipodi web page, I don't know.

PKG Config and other stuff can be found at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/dependencies/

But for LibART things get tricky, the last published package
(aparently 2.3.3) is too old (it isn't PKG Config aware -- which
Sodipodi needs to find it).  The weg page with this outdated version
is:

http://www.artofcode.com/libart.html

So I went for CVS checkout, as described here:

http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html

And here is the command that should do the trick:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/gnome co libart_lgpl

But I suspect you need a fairly recent set of the gnu autotools to
generate the configure script.

Building Sodipodi
=================

In my case the autodetection of Xft didn't work very well, I don't
know why, I didn't check closely, but even though at the end of
./configure it claimed not to use it, it failed when it couln't find
it so I had to explicitly disable it with `./configure --without-xft'
-- which did the trick.


Finally
=======

This is it, the rest is mostly about doing ./configure, make and make
install for these packages.  I don't recall any other issues when
building Sodipodi but there are a few days since I did this so YMMV.


  Johann "Myrkraverk" Oskarsson <[email protected]>

-- 
Sometimes I do not think at all!  Does that mean I don't exist
in the mean time?



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