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Finally add README and INSTALL files
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Fri, 22 May 2009 13:34:47 +0100
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1 (This file was created from
2 http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2009-05-22)
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4 ===== Building =====
5 ==== Dependencies ====
6 There are a couple of libraries which Prosody needs installed before
7 you can build it. These are:
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9 * liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library
10 * libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL
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:
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
17 of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here.
18
19 ==== configure ====
20 The first step of building is to run the configure script. This
21 creates a file called 'config.unix' which is used by the next step to
22 control aspects of the build process.
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24 All options to configure can be seen by running ./configure --help.
25 Sometimes you won't need to pass any parameters to configure, but on
26 most systems you shall.
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28 To make this a little easier, there are a few presets which configure
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
34
35 ==== make ====
36 Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run:
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38 make
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40 Simple? :-)
41
42 If you do happen to have problems at this stage, it is most likely
43 due to the build process not finding the dependencies. Ensure you
44 have them installed, and in the standard library paths for your
45 system.
46
47 For more help, just ask ;-)
48
49 ==== install ====
50 At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with:
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52 ./prosody
53
54 There is no problem with this, it is actually the easiest way to do
55 development, as it doesn't spread parts around your system, and you
56 can keep multiple versions around in their own directories without
57 conflict.
58
59 Should you wish to install it system-wide however, simply run:
60
61 sudo make install
62
63 ...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you
64 can pass to the initial ./configure using the 'prefix' option, or
65 edit config.unix directly. If the new path doesn't require root
66 permission to write to, you also won't need (or want) to use 'sudo'
67 in front of the 'make install'.
68
69 Have fun, and see you on Jabber!