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Merge 0.9->trunk.
author Waqas Hussain <waqas20@gmail.com>
date Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:07:00 +0500
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1 (This file was created from
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2 http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2012-05-12)
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4 ===== Building =====
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5 ==== Dependencies ====
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6 There are a couple of libraries which Prosody needs installed before
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7 you can build it. These are:
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9 * lua5.1: The interpreter
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10 * liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library
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11 * libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL
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12 * libidn11: GNU libidn library, version 1.1
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14 These can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages:
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15 lua5.1 liblua5.1-dev libidn11-dev libssl-dev
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17 On Mandriva try: urpmi lua liblua-devel libidn-devel libopenssl-devel
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19 On other systems... good luck, but please let me know of the best way
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20 of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here.
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22 ==== configure ====
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23 The first step of building is to run the configure script. This
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25 control aspects of the build process.
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27 All options to configure can be seen by running ./configure --help.
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28 Sometimes you won't need to pass any parameters to configure, but on
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29 most systems you shall.
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31 To make this a little easier, there are a few presets which configure
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32 accepts. You can load a preset using:
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34 ./configure --ostype=PRESET
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38 ==== make ====
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39 Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run:
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43 Simple? :-)
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47 have them installed, and in the standard library paths for your
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48 system.
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50 For more help, just ask ;-)
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52 ==== install ====
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53 At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with:
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55 ./prosody
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57 There is no problem with this, it is actually the easiest way to do
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62 Should you wish to install it system-wide however, simply run:
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64 sudo make install
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66 ...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you
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69 permission to write to, you also won't need (or want) to use 'sudo'
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70 in front of the 'make install'.
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72 Have fun, and see you on Jabber!