GnuTLS README-alpha -- Information for developers. -*- outline -*-
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This file contains instructions for developers and advanced users that
want to build from version controlled sources.
We require several tools to check out and build the software, including:
- Make
- Automake (use 1.11.3 or later)
- Autoconf
- Autogen (use 5.16 or later)
- Libtool
- Gettext
- Texinfo
- Tar
- Gzip
- Texlive & epsf (for PDF manual)
- CVS (for gettext autopoint)
- GTK-DOC (for API manual)
- Git
- Perl
- Valgrind (optional)
- Nettle
- Guile
- p11-kit
- libtasn1 (optional)
- datefudge (optional)
- Libidn (optional, for crywrap)
- AWK (for make dist, pmccabe2html)
- git2cl (for make dist, ChangeLog)
The required software is typically distributed with your operating
system, and the instructions for installing them differ. Here are
some hints:
gNewSense/Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install git-core autoconf libtool gettext autopoint
apt-get install texinfo texlive texlive-generic-recommended texlive-extra-utils
apt-get install help2man gtk-doc-tools valgrind
apt-get install guile-1.8-dev libtasn1-3-dev
apt-get install datefudge libidn11-dev gawk
You will sometimes need to install more recent versions of Automake,
Nettle, P11-kit and Autogen, which you will need to build from
sources. If your system has the recent versions, you could do:
apt-get install automake autogen nettle-dev libp11-kit-dev
To download the version controlled sources:
$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnutls.git
$ cd gnutls
The next step is to run autoreconf (etc) and then ./configure:
$ make bootstrap
When built this way, some developer defaults will be enabled. See
cfg.mk for details.
Then build the project normally:
$ make
$ make check
Happy hacking!
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