--- a/README-builds.html Wed Sep 17 13:45:16 2008 -0700
+++ b/README-builds.html Wed Jul 05 16:41:25 2017 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
</head>
<body style="background-color:lightcyan">
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- + <table width="100%">
+ <table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img alt="OpenJDK"
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#MBE">Minimum Build Environments</a></li>
<li><a href="#SDBE">Specific Developer Build Environments</a></li>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#fedora">Fedora Linux</a> </li>
+ <li><a href="#centos">CentOS Linux</a> </li>
+ <li><a href="#ubuntu">Ubuntu Linux</a> </li>
+ </ul>
<li><a href="#directories">Source Directory Structure</a> </li>
<li><a href="#building">Build Information</a>
<ul>
@@ -182,14 +187,64 @@
we will try to provide what information we have available to us.
</blockquote>
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- <h3><a name="fedora">Fedora</a></h3>
+ <h3><a name="fedora">Fedora 9</a></h3>
<blockquote>
- TBD
+ After installing
+ <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 9</a>
+ you need to make sure you have
+ the "Software Development" bundle installed, plus the
+ following packages:
+ <blockquote>
+ <ul>
+ <li>cups devel: Cups Development Package</li>
+ <li>freetype 2.3+ devel: Freetype 2.3 Development Package</li>
+ <li>hg: Mercurial, if you need to clone or manage source repositories</li>
+ <li>ksh: May be needed when using <tt>webrev</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ Always a good idea to do a complete Software Update/Refresh
+ after you get all the packages installed.
</blockquote>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------ -->
- <h3><a name="debian">Debian</a></h3>
+ <h3><a name="centos">CentOS 5.2</a></h3>
<blockquote>
- TBD
+ After installing
+ <a href="http://www.centos.org/">CentOS 5.2</a>
+ you need to make sure you have
+ the following Development bundles installed:
+ <blockquote>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Development Libraries</li>
+ <li>Development Tools</li>
+ <li>Java Development</li>
+ <li>X Software Development</li>
+ </ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ Plus the following packages:
+ <blockquote>
+ <ul>
+ <li>cups devel: Cups Development Package</li>
+ <li>alsa devel: Alsa Development Package</li>
+ <li>ant: Ant Package</li>
+ <li>Xi devel: libXi.so Development Package</li>
+ </ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ The freetype 2.3 packages don't seem to be available,
+ but the freetype 2.3 sources can be downloaded, built,
+ and installed easily enough from
+ <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype">
+ the freetype site</a>.
+ Build and install with something like:
+ <blockquote>
+ <tt>./configure && make && sudo -u root make install</tt>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ Mercurial packages could not be found easily, but a Google
+ search should find ones, and they usually include Python if
+ it's needed.
</blockquote>
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<h3><a name="ubuntu">Ubuntu</a></h3>
@@ -664,8 +719,8 @@
</li>
<li>
Install the
- <a href="#msvc">Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional</a> or the
- <a href="#mssdk">Microsoft Platform SDK</a>.
+ <a href="#msvc">Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional</a> (32bit) or the
+ <a href="#mssdk">Microsoft Platform SDK</a> (64bit).
</li>
<li>
Setup all environment variables for compilers
@@ -871,6 +926,11 @@
The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 (VS2005) compiler
will not work at this time due to the new runtime dll
and the manifest requirements.
+ <p>
+ <b>WARNING:</b> Make sure you check out the
+ <a href="#cygwin">CYGWIN link.exe WARNING</a>.
+ The path <tt>/usr/bin</tt> must be after the path to the
+ Visual Studio product.
</blockquote>
<strong><a name="mssdk">Windows X64: Microsoft Platform SDK April 2005</a></strong>
<blockquote>
@@ -1079,6 +1139,7 @@
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Binary Name</td>
+ <td>Category</td>
<td>Package</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
@@ -1087,50 +1148,59 @@
<tr>
<td>ar.exe</td>
<td>Devel</td>
- <td>binutils: The GNU assembler, linker and binary
+ <td>binutils</td>
+ <td>The GNU assembler, linker and binary
utilities</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>make.exe</td>
<td>Devel</td>
- <td>make: The GNU version of the 'make' utility<br>
+ <td>make</td>
+ <td>The GNU version of the 'make' utility built for CYGWIN.<br>
<b>NOTE</b>: See <a href="#gmake">the GNU make section</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>m4.exe</td>
<td>Interpreters</td>
- <td>m4: GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro
+ <td>m4</td>
+ <td>GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro
processor</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cpio.exe</td>
<td>Utils</td>
- <td>cpio: A program to manage archives of files</td>
+ <td>cpio</td>
+ <td>A program to manage archives of files</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gawk.exe</td>
<td>Utils</td>
- <td>awk: Pattern-directed scanning and processing language</td>
+ <td>awk</td>
+ <td>Pattern-directed scanning and processing language</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>file.exe</td>
<td>Utils</td>
- <td>file: Determines file type using 'magic' numbers</td>
+ <td>file</td>
+ <td>Determines file type using 'magic' numbers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>zip.exe</td>
<td>Archive</td>
- <td>zip: Package and compress (archive) files</td>
+ <td>zip</td>
+ <td>Package and compress (archive) files</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>unzip.exe</td>
<td>Archive</td>
- <td>unzip: Extract compressed files in a ZIP archive</td>
+ <td>unzip</td>
+ <td>Extract compressed files in a ZIP archive</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>free.exe</td>
- <td>Procps</td>
- <td>free: Display amount of free and used memory in the system</td>
+ <td>System</td>
+ <td>procps</td>
+ <td>Display amount of free and used memory in the system</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
@@ -1144,6 +1214,13 @@
section on
<a href="http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda" target="_blank">
BLODA (applications that interfere with CYGWIN)</a>.
+ <p>
+ <b>WARNING:</b>
+ Be very careful with <b><tt>link.exe</tt></b>, it will conflict
+ with the Visual Studio version. You need the Visual Studio
+ version of <tt>link.exe</tt>, not the CYGWIN one.
+ So it's important that the Visual Studio paths in PATH preceed
+ the CYGWIN path <tt>/usr/bin</tt>.
</blockquote>
<strong><a name="dxsdk">Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK header files and libraries</a></strong>
<blockquote>
@@ -1429,7 +1506,7 @@
build output is to go.
The default output directory will be build/<i>platform</i>.
</dd>
- <dt><a name="ALT_SLASHJAVA"><tt>ALT_SLASHJAVA</tt></a></dt>
+ <dt><a name="ALT_SLASH_JAVA"><tt>ALT_SLASH_JAVA</tt></a></dt>
<dd>
The default root location for many of the ALT path locations
of the following ALT variables.