1 Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book suite from
4 See http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution for more information.
6 If you are using Evolution, you may wish to subscribe to the Evolution
7 users mailing list. If you are interested in contributing to
8 development on it, you should certainly subscribe to the Evolution
9 Hackers mailing list. Visit
11 http://lists.ximian.com
13 to subscribe or view archives of the Ximian mailing lists.
15 If you are planning to work on any part of Evolution, please send mail
16 to the mailing list first, to avoid duplicated effort (and to make
17 sure that you aren't basing your work on interfaces that are expected
20 There is also a #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org.
22 Help for Evolution is available in the user manual (select "Help" from
23 the menu after running the application), at the Novell knowledge base
24 (http://support.novell.com), in the Evolution man page (run "man
25 evolution" at the command line), and in the --help strings (run
26 "evolution --help" at the command line).
28 The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution.
34 In order to build Evolution you need to have the full set of GNOME 2.6
35 (or greater) development libraries installed.
37 GNOME 2.6 or greater comes with most of the modern distributions, so
38 in most cases it should be enough to just install all the devel
39 packages from your distribution.
41 Please make sure you have the most recent versions of the libraries
42 installed, since bugs in the libraries can cause bugs in Evolution.
44 Additional dependencies, besides the stock GNOME libraries (the
45 dependencies should be compiled in the order they are listed here):
47 * gnome-icon-theme 1.2.0 or later
49 * ORBit 2.9.8 or later
51 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
53 * libsoup 2.2.1 or later
55 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
57 * evolution-data-server 1.1.1 or later
59 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server
61 * gtkhtml 3.5.0 or later
63 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml
65 * [Optional] Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries
67 These are needed if you want to compile Evolution with SSL and S/MIME
70 http://www.mozilla.org/
72 Many distributions ship these as Mozilla development
75 * [Optional] gnome-spell 1.0.1 or later
77 This is only necessary if you want to have the spell
78 checking functionality in Evolution's message composer.
80 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-spell
85 First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and
86 its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME
87 install, or into a new prefix.
89 Installing everything into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME
90 install will make it much easier to build and run programs, and easier
91 to switch between using packages and building it yourself, but it may
92 also make it harder to uninstall later. Also, it increases the chance
93 that something goes wrong and your GNOME installation gets ruined.
95 If you want to install in a different prefix, you need to do the
98 * Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to contain a
99 colon-separated list of all the pkg-config directories that
100 will be involved in the build. This basically means a list
101 of $prefix/lib/pkgconfig directory names, where $prefix is
102 the prefix where a library is installed.
104 For example, if you have GNOME installed in /usr and you
105 are installing Evolution and its dependencies in
106 /opt/evolution, you want to do something like the following
107 (assuming you are using Bash):
109 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig
111 * Edit the bonobo-activation-config.xml file (which is
112 normally found in /etc/bonobo-activation/) to include the
113 location where you are installing Evolution.
115 In the example given above (GNOME in /usr, Evolution and
116 dependencies in /opt/evolution), your
117 bonobo-activation-config.xml will have to look like this:
119 <?xml version="1.0"?>
122 <item>/usr/lib/bonobo/servers</item>
123 <item>/opt/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers</item>
127 * Pass an appropriate --prefix parameter to the configure
128 scripts of Evolution and its dependencies, eg:
130 ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution
132 More information on how to use the configure script is available in
133 the INSTALL file which is part of the Evolution tarball.
139 Some optional features can be enabled at compilation time by passing
140 appropriate flags to the configure script:
144 Make sure you have Mozilla's NSS nad NSPR libraries
145 installed and pass the following flag: