Re: What linux distribution to use when building workrave?

Hello,
I managed to build Workrave for Linux on Ubuntu after
getting some help from Daniel Nylander.

I still haven't been able to build Workrave for Windows
though. I am primarily a Windows user and I would like to
customize Workrave a little bit for my use.

I followed the instructions in the build/README file and
managed to get through all steps in the build/build-cross.sh
script after changing version on some packages. I got stuck
in the build/build-packages.sh script. First I ran into a
problem of having a too late version of texinfo that was
detected as a very old version that I managed to workaround
by hacking some files and downloading later versions of some
libraries. But I never managed to run build-packages.sh
without compiler/linker errors. If I remember correctly it
was glibmm that failed to build.

Do you know a linux distrubution/version where
cross-compiling of Workrave for Windows works more or less
out of the box?

Regards,
Örjan


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Caelers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 6:24 PM
To: [email protected]; End-user mailing list
Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] What linux distribution to use
when building workrave?

Hello,

> Can you recommend a particular linux distribution and
version that is 
> suitable for building Workrave on?

We (the developers) run debian and ubuntu. But any other
distribution should work fine.

> I tried to build Workrave on Ubuntu 8.04.1
(2.6.24-19-generic) but I 
> got stuck very early.  When trying to run build-cross.sh I
got the 
> error message "checking whether the C compiler (gcc  )
works... no)"

build-cross is for building the windows version using cross
compilers on linux. You probably don't have the correct
cross compilers installed. Try autogen.sh

> If there is a linux distribution that you know that the
build scripts 
> work on without problems I would like to that distribution
instead of 
> Ubuntu 8.04.1. I have a spare computer where I have my
linux 
> installation and I will not use it for anything else than
building Workrave.

How about apt-get install workrave?

Any distribution should work if the right packages are
installed (autoconf. 
automake, gtk+ gtkmm, glib, ....)

Groetjes,
   Rob



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