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1.13 <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
1.14 <li><a href="#MBE">Minimum Build Environments</a></li>
1.15 <li><a href="#SDBE">Specific Developer Build Environments</a></li>
1.16 + <ul>
1.17 + <li><a href="#fedora">Fedora Linux</a> </li>
1.18 + <li><a href="#centos">CentOS Linux</a> </li>
1.19 + <li><a href="#ubuntu">Ubuntu Linux</a> </li>
1.20 + </ul>
1.21 <li><a href="#directories">Source Directory Structure</a> </li>
1.22 <li><a href="#building">Build Information</a>
1.23 <ul>
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1.25 we will try to provide what information we have available to us.
1.26 </blockquote>
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1.28 - <h3><a name="fedora">Fedora</a></h3>
1.29 + <h3><a name="fedora">Fedora 9</a></h3>
1.30 <blockquote>
1.31 - TBD
1.32 + After installing
1.33 + <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 9</a>
1.34 + you need to make sure you have
1.35 + the "Software Development" bundle installed, plus the
1.36 + following packages:
1.37 + <blockquote>
1.38 + <ul>
1.39 + <li>cups devel: Cups Development Package</li>
1.40 + <li>freetype 2.3+ devel: Freetype 2.3 Development Package</li>
1.41 + <li>hg: Mercurial, if you need to clone or manage source repositories</li>
1.42 + <li>ksh: May be needed when using <tt>webrev</tt></li>
1.43 + </ul>
1.44 + </blockquote>
1.45 + <p>
1.46 + Always a good idea to do a complete Software Update/Refresh
1.47 + after you get all the packages installed.
1.48 </blockquote>
1.49 <!-- ------------------------------------------------------ -->
1.50 - <h3><a name="debian">Debian</a></h3>
1.51 + <h3><a name="centos">CentOS 5.2</a></h3>
1.52 <blockquote>
1.53 - TBD
1.54 + After installing
1.55 + <a href="http://www.centos.org/">CentOS 5.2</a>
1.56 + you need to make sure you have
1.57 + the following Development bundles installed:
1.58 + <blockquote>
1.59 + <ul>
1.60 + <li>Development Libraries</li>
1.61 + <li>Development Tools</li>
1.62 + <li>Java Development</li>
1.63 + <li>X Software Development</li>
1.64 + </ul>
1.65 + </blockquote>
1.66 + <p>
1.67 + Plus the following packages:
1.68 + <blockquote>
1.69 + <ul>
1.70 + <li>cups devel: Cups Development Package</li>
1.71 + <li>alsa devel: Alsa Development Package</li>
1.72 + <li>ant: Ant Package</li>
1.73 + <li>Xi devel: libXi.so Development Package</li>
1.74 + </ul>
1.75 + </blockquote>
1.76 + <p>
1.77 + The freetype 2.3 packages don't seem to be available,
1.78 + but the freetype 2.3 sources can be downloaded, built,
1.79 + and installed easily enough from
1.80 + <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype">
1.81 + the freetype site</a>.
1.82 + Build and install with something like:
1.83 + <blockquote>
1.84 + <tt>./configure && make && sudo -u root make install</tt>
1.85 + </blockquote>
1.86 + <p>
1.87 + Mercurial packages could not be found easily, but a Google
1.88 + search should find ones, and they usually include Python if
1.89 + it's needed.
1.90 </blockquote>
1.91 <!-- ------------------------------------------------------ -->
1.92 <h3><a name="ubuntu">Ubuntu</a></h3>
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1.94 </li>
1.95 <li>
1.96 Install the
1.97 - <a href="#msvc">Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional</a> or the
1.98 - <a href="#mssdk">Microsoft Platform SDK</a>.
1.99 + <a href="#msvc">Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional</a> (32bit) or the
1.100 + <a href="#mssdk">Microsoft Platform SDK</a> (64bit).
1.101 </li>
1.102 <li>
1.103 Setup all environment variables for compilers
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1.105 The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 (VS2005) compiler
1.106 will not work at this time due to the new runtime dll
1.107 and the manifest requirements.
1.108 + <p>
1.109 + <b>WARNING:</b> Make sure you check out the
1.110 + <a href="#cygwin">CYGWIN link.exe WARNING</a>.
1.111 + The path <tt>/usr/bin</tt> must be after the path to the
1.112 + Visual Studio product.
1.113 </blockquote>
1.114 <strong><a name="mssdk">Windows X64: Microsoft Platform SDK April 2005</a></strong>
1.115 <blockquote>
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1.117 <thead>
1.118 <tr>
1.119 <td>Binary Name</td>
1.120 + <td>Category</td>
1.121 <td>Package</td>
1.122 <td>Description</td>
1.123 </tr>
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1.125 <tr>
1.126 <td>ar.exe</td>
1.127 <td>Devel</td>
1.128 - <td>binutils: The GNU assembler, linker and binary
1.129 + <td>binutils</td>
1.130 + <td>The GNU assembler, linker and binary
1.131 utilities</td>
1.132 </tr>
1.133 <tr>
1.134 <td>make.exe</td>
1.135 <td>Devel</td>
1.136 - <td>make: The GNU version of the 'make' utility<br>
1.137 + <td>make</td>
1.138 + <td>The GNU version of the 'make' utility built for CYGWIN.<br>
1.139 <b>NOTE</b>: See <a href="#gmake">the GNU make section</a></td>
1.140 </tr>
1.141 <tr>
1.142 <td>m4.exe</td>
1.143 <td>Interpreters</td>
1.144 - <td>m4: GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro
1.145 + <td>m4</td>
1.146 + <td>GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro
1.147 processor</td>
1.148 </tr>
1.149 <tr>
1.150 <td>cpio.exe</td>
1.151 <td>Utils</td>
1.152 - <td>cpio: A program to manage archives of files</td>
1.153 + <td>cpio</td>
1.154 + <td>A program to manage archives of files</td>
1.155 </tr>
1.156 <tr>
1.157 <td>gawk.exe</td>
1.158 <td>Utils</td>
1.159 - <td>awk: Pattern-directed scanning and processing language</td>
1.160 + <td>awk</td>
1.161 + <td>Pattern-directed scanning and processing language</td>
1.162 </tr>
1.163 <tr>
1.164 <td>file.exe</td>
1.165 <td>Utils</td>
1.166 - <td>file: Determines file type using 'magic' numbers</td>
1.167 + <td>file</td>
1.168 + <td>Determines file type using 'magic' numbers</td>
1.169 </tr>
1.170 <tr>
1.171 <td>zip.exe</td>
1.172 <td>Archive</td>
1.173 - <td>zip: Package and compress (archive) files</td>
1.174 + <td>zip</td>
1.175 + <td>Package and compress (archive) files</td>
1.176 </tr>
1.177 <tr>
1.178 <td>unzip.exe</td>
1.179 <td>Archive</td>
1.180 - <td>unzip: Extract compressed files in a ZIP archive</td>
1.181 + <td>unzip</td>
1.182 + <td>Extract compressed files in a ZIP archive</td>
1.183 </tr>
1.184 <tr>
1.185 <td>free.exe</td>
1.186 - <td>Procps</td>
1.187 - <td>free: Display amount of free and used memory in the system</td>
1.188 + <td>System</td>
1.189 + <td>procps</td>
1.190 + <td>Display amount of free and used memory in the system</td>
1.191 </tr>
1.192 </tbody>
1.193 </table>
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1.195 section on
1.196 <a href="http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda" target="_blank">
1.197 BLODA (applications that interfere with CYGWIN)</a>.
1.198 + <p>
1.199 + <b>WARNING:</b>
1.200 + Be very careful with <b><tt>link.exe</tt></b>, it will conflict
1.201 + with the Visual Studio version. You need the Visual Studio
1.202 + version of <tt>link.exe</tt>, not the CYGWIN one.
1.203 + So it's important that the Visual Studio paths in PATH preceed
1.204 + the CYGWIN path <tt>/usr/bin</tt>.
1.205 </blockquote>
1.206 <strong><a name="dxsdk">Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK header files and libraries</a></strong>
1.207 <blockquote>
