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util.pposix: Add abort() function
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
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1 (This file was created from
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2 http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2009-05-22)
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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 * liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library
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10 * libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL
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11 * libidn11: GNU libidn library, version 1.1
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13 Both of these can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages:
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14 liblua5.1-dev libidn11-dev libssl-dev
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16 On other systems... good luck, but please let me know of the best way
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17 of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here.
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19 ==== configure ====
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20 The first step of building is to run the configure script. This
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21 creates a file called 'config.unix' which is used by the next step to
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22 control aspects of the build process.
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24 All options to configure can be seen by running ./configure --help.
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25 Sometimes you won't need to pass any parameters to configure, but on
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26 most systems you shall.
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28 To make this a little easier, there are a few presets which configure
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29 accepts. You can load a preset using:
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31 ./configure --ostype=PRESET
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33 Where PRESET can currently be one of: debian, macosx
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35 ==== make ====
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36 Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run:
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42 If you do happen to have problems at this stage, it is most likely
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44 have them installed, and in the standard library paths for your
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45 system.
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47 For more help, just ask ;-)
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49 ==== install ====
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50 At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with:
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52 ./prosody
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63 ...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you
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65 edit config.unix directly. If the new path doesn't require root
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66 permission to write to, you also won't need (or want) to use 'sudo'
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67 in front of the 'make install'.
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69 Have fun, and see you on Jabber!