3 GPL Electronic Design Automation
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6 Installation instructions
8 Please see the end of this file for platform / vendor specific hints and
9 tips. Also please read the README file in this same directory.
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18 (Depending on where you installed the libraries, you might have to run
21 In order to build libgeda you must install the following packages first:
24 GTK+ 2.4.x and all dependancies
26 LibStroke 0.5.1 (optional)
27 libgdgeda 2.0.15 (optional; you also need zlib and libpng for this lib)
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32 - To compile libgeda with gtk+ installed in some system directory (/usr/local
36 ./configure (This should guess everything right)
37 (e-mail me if it doesn't)
40 Run: configure --help for more options (such as overriding the default
43 - To install libgeda into the prefix dir (and subdirs) type:
47 in libgeda's top level directory
50 gEDA uses GNU Libtool in order to build shared libraries on a
51 variety of systems. While this is very nice for making usable
52 binaries, it can be a pain when trying to debug a program. For that
53 reason, compilation of shared libraries can be turned off by
54 specifying the `--disable-shared' option to `configure'.
56 The configure script should figure out most system dependant things, but at
57 this point I'm either not taking into account what configure figures out or
58 I have missed some system dependance. So please e-mail me at:
64 If configure finds libstroke installed it will automatically enable
65 stroke support. To disable this run configure like:
67 ./configure --disable-strokes
77 To uninstall a previous version (or the current version) of gEDA type:
81 in the top level gEDA source directory. This will remove installed files
85 Platform / Vendor specific tips and hints
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90 If you get the following error message:
92 "link: '-L' cannot specify a relative directory"
94 There is a problem with readline and guile. Please hide (rename)
95 libreadline.so.* (move it out of wherever it is installed) and rebuild
96 guile again. Then recompile gEDA and things should work right.
100 The guile RPMs that are shipped with RedHat 6.0 has been giving some
101 people some trouble. The solution seems to grab either the SRPMS and
102 build that or get the guile-1.3.tar.gz file and build guile manually.
104 It is important to install *-devel rpms for the various packages
105 which gEDA depends upon. gEDA will not build without them being
110 Be sure you do not compile libstroke with MOUSE_DROPPINGS defined;
111 it won't work at all with gschem. You would have had to manually
112 define MOUSE_DROPPINGS, so if you just followed the build
113 instructions you should be okay.
118 If you have problems running the shell script wrappers (when
119 running ./gschem or any of the other programs), try changing
120 the shell to /bin/ksh (or where ksh is). /bin/sh is known to
121 be of lesser quality on Solaris.
123 Also run ./configure --disable-shared if you have to problems
124 running programs because a shared library isn't be found/loaded.