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In order to compile Gambas, you must install the following development packages.
The actual name of these development packages depends on your distribution, so please refer to the distribution specific pages above for more details.
| Component | Requirements (libraries or pkg-config module) |
|---|---|
| Compilation | gcc g++ automake autoconf libtool >= 2.0 |
| Interpreter | libffi |
| gb.compress.bzlib2 | libbz2.so |
| gb.compress.zlib | libz.so |
| gb.cairo | cairo >= 1.6.0 cairo-ft >= 1.6.0 |
| gb.crypt | libcrypt.so |
| gb.db.mysql | libmysqlclient.so, libz.so |
| gb.db.odbc | libodbc.so |
| gb.db.postgresql | libpq.so |
| gb.db.sqlite2 | libsqlite.so |
| gb.db.sqlite3 | libsqlite3.so |
| gb.dbus | dbus-1 |
| gb.desktop | libXtst.so |
| gb.desktop.gnome | gnome-keyring-1 |
| gb.gmp | libgmp.so |
| gb.gsl | libgsl.so libgslcblas.so |
| gb.gtk | gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16 librsvg-2.0 >= 2.14.3 cairo >= 1.6.0 cairo-ft >= 1.6.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 >= 2.10 |
| gb.gtk.opengl | gtkglext-1.0 |
| gb.image.io | gdk-pixbuf |
| gb.image.imlib | imlib |
| gb.jit | LLVM >= 3.1 |
| gb.libxml | libxml-2.0 |
| gb.media |
gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.31 gstreamer-interfaces-0.10 >= 0.10.31 for Gambas <= 3.4
gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer-video-1.0 for Gambas >= 3.5 |
| gb.mime | gmime-2.4 or gmime-2.6 |
| gb.ncurses | ncurses.so panel.so |
| gb.net.curl | libcurl >= 7.13 |
| gb.net.smtp | glib-2.0 |
| gb.opengl gb.opengl.glsl | libGL.so libGLEW.so |
| gb.opengl.glu | libGLU.so |
| gb.openssl | openssl |
| gb.pcre | libpcre.so |
| gb.pdf | poppler >= 0.5 |
| gb.qt4 gb.qt4.ext gb.qt4.opengl gb.qt4.webkit | All Qt4 libraries >= Qt 4.5 |
| gb.sdl | libSDL.so libSDL_ttf.so libGL.so libGLEW.so |
| gb.sdl.sound | libSDL.so, libSDL_mixer.so |
| gb.v4l | libjpeg.so libpng.so Video4Linux >= 2.0 |
| gb.xml.xslt | libxml-2.0 libxslt |
You must have the right to write to /tmp, otherwise Gambas will not work.
The following versions of GNU tools are needed:
When you are sure that everything is downloaded, type the following magic sentences in a shell.
First, enter the source top-level directory.
$ cd <path/to/source/directory>
Then, type that to create the configuration scripts.
$ ./reconf-all
Then type that to analyze the current system and configure the package:
$ ./configure -C ...
If a library or a development package is missing, then you will be warned that some components are disabled.
If everything is configured without error, then run this command to compile the program:
$ make ...
If everything compiles without error, then enter this command to install everything:
$ su -c "make install" Password:...
or
$ sudo make install Password:...
If you did several successive compilations, after having updated the source from the subversion repository for example, and if something fails during all this process, you can try to "reconfigure" the configuration scripts by typing the following command:
$ ./reconf-all
Then you can run ./configure -C again
If it does not work, I need to know what happened exactly. To do so, type the following command :
$ ( ./configure -C; make; make install ) > output.txt 2>&1
And send me the file "output.txt" by mail, with every other detail about your computer and your distribution you find useful.
| A | Arch Linux | |
| D | Debian | |
| F | Fedora · FreeBSD | |
| M | Mageia · Mandriva | |
| O | OpenSUSE 10.2 | |
| P | Pardus | |
| U | Ubuntu |
The Gambas IDE is made with Gambas. In order to compile and use it, you need to compile the following components:
To compile the latest development version of Gambas from the subversion repository, read the How To Deal With Subversion page.