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 In order to build gschem you must install the following packages first:
21 GTK+ 2.4.x and all dependancies
23 libgeda (match version and must be installed first)
25 LibStroke 0.5.1 (optional)
26 libgdgeda 2.0.15 (optional; you also need zlib and libpng for this lib)
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31 - To compile gschem with gtk+ installed in some system directory (/usr/local
35 ./configure (This should guess everything right)
36 (e-mail me if it doesn't)
39 Run: configure --help for more options (such as overriding the default
42 You can specify where rc files are installed by using the --with-rcdir=path
43 when you run ./configure. This is useful to package maintainers who would
44 like to override where gschem and friends search for the rc files.
46 - To install gschem into the prefix dir (and subdirs) type:
50 in gschem's top level directory
53 gEDA uses GNU Libtool in order to build shared libraries on a
54 variety of systems. While this is very nice for making usable
55 binaries, it can be a pain when trying to debug a program. For that
56 reason, compilation of shared libraries can be turned off by
57 specifying the `--disable-shared' option to `configure'.
59 The configure script should figure out most system dependant things, but at
60 this point I'm either not taking into account what configure figures out or
61 I have missed some system dependance. So please e-mail me at:
67 If configure finds libstroke installed it will automatically enable
68 stroke support. To disable this run configure like:
70 ./configure --disable-strokes
80 To uninstall a previous version (or the current version) of gEDA type:
84 in the top level gEDA source directory. This will remove installed files
88 Platform / Vendor specific tips and hints
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93 If you get the following error message:
95 "link: '-L' cannot specify a relative directory"
97 There is a problem with readline and guile. Please hide (rename)
98 libreadline.so.* (move it out of wherever it is installed) and rebuild
99 guile again. Then recompile gEDA and things should work right.
103 The guile RPMs that are shipped with RedHat 6.0 has been giving some
104 people some trouble. The solution seems to grab either the SRPMS and
105 build that or get the guile-1.3.tar.gz file and build guile manually.
109 Be sure you do not compile libstroke with MOUSE_DROPPINGS defined;
110 it won't work at all with gschem. You would have had to manually
111 define MOUSE_DROPPINGS, so if you just followed the build
112 instructions you should be okay.
117 If you have problems running the shell script wrappers (when
118 running ./gschem or any of the other programs), try changing
119 the shell to /bin/ksh (or where ksh is). /bin/sh is known to
120 be of lesser quality on Solaris.
122 Also run ./configure --disable-shared if you have to problems
123 running programs because a shared library isn't be found/loaded.