Building software from source

[Chester Chin]

HI Guys,

I have stumble upon a problem while building. So anyone who had experience building from source do share your expertise here.

While searching for solution I found this link which by far gives me the best explanation regarding this issue.

http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/27.html

I am trying to get this software to run on Debian Wheezy (Debian Sid and Squeezy works fine)

http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Compilation

I notice that a lot of dependencies packages that is required. I am trying fedora so heres the spec list to get kiwix running.

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix_test/blob/master/fedora/kiwix.spec 

Anyone care to give it a shot? See if you can get it running either Raspbian/Debian Wheezy or Pidora/Fedora.

[Boon Leong Ong]

I give it a try yesterday on Ubuntu 14.04 and I have to bring in a lot of packages in order to get passed the configure stage.

Yet, I realize that the configure phase gives some warning. I proceed with the "make" stage and go throw a bunch of compilation error in python around xulrunner...

Are you getting the same? 

[Chester Chin]

Yes I am getting the same error, it warns me about the python.lib(if not mistaken) and missing header. Plus loads of missing dependencies and package versioning issue for gcc 3.8.2-8 (keep asking me to have minimum gcc-3.8.3 to work).

But in the internet, I found someone who manage to get it working.

Youtube Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vBdaY79y0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zIwoCaH12o

His Comment:

The OS was Raspbian, and I compiled the kiwix source code on the Pi itself.  There were also some pre-compiled programs that were available on the kiwix website which I tested too (they worked).  I expect the source to compile on any Pi distro, but the only way to know is to try."

Related article

http://irongarment.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/kiwix-on-raspberry-pi/

Regards,

Chester