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http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2009-05-22) |
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===== Building ===== |
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==== Dependencies ==== |
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There are a couple of libraries which Prosody needs installed before |
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you can build it. These are: |
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* liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library |
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* libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL |
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* libidn11: GNU libidn library, version 1.1 |
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Both of these can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages: |
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liblua5.1-dev libidn11-dev libssl-dev |
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On other systems... good luck, but please let me know of the best way |
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of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here. |
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==== configure ==== |
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The first step of building is to run the configure script. This |
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creates a file called 'config.unix' which is used by the next step to |
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All options to configure can be seen by running ./configure --help. |
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Sometimes you won't need to pass any parameters to configure, but on |
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most systems you shall. |
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To make this a little easier, there are a few presets which configure |
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accepts. You can load a preset using: |
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Where PRESET can currently be one of: debian, macosx |
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==== make ==== |
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Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run: |
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Simple? :-) |
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If you do happen to have problems at this stage, it is most likely |
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due to the build process not finding the dependencies. Ensure you |
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have them installed, and in the standard library paths for your |
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For more help, just ask ;-) |
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==== install ==== |
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At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with: |
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There is no problem with this, it is actually the easiest way to do |
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Should you wish to install it system-wide however, simply run: |
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...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you |
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edit config.unix directly. If the new path doesn't require root |
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