Building with CMake

Building for Linux

Requirements

• Subversion (If you want to build the latest revision.)
• CMake 2.4 (Version 2.4.7 recommend.)
• Qt3
• GCC (Version 4.1 or 4.2 recommend.)
• LibXML2
• LibXSLT
• zlib
• libXScrnSaver

Note: If you use binary packages for these dependencies you will need the header packages (normally named package-dev or package-devel) of these packages, too. You might also need header packages of dependencies of these, for example:

• libpng
• libmng
• Maybe others

Optional Packages:

• OpenSSL (For using encrypted connections, some plugins need this.)
• ASpell (If you want spell checking and are not using KDE.)
• kdelibs (For KDE integration.)
• GnuPG (Not required at build time; required if you want to use GPG encryption for messages.)

First create a build dir

mkdir -p sim/source sim/build

Put the source code in the source dir, cd to the build dir and run:

cmake ../source

That will run cmake's configure checks which will check if you have got every programs/libraries/headers,that are needed to compile sim. If you want to tune some of the variables, you can either use the interactive mode of cmake

cmake -i ../source

or you can use cmake's nice gui:

ccmake ../source

If that is done just run

make 

in the build dir to build sim. When it finished, run

make install

to install sim.

Building for Windows

Requirements

• TortoiseSVN for getting the Sources
• CMake 2.4.2
• Qt3 for your platform (Q.../Free will be fine)
• A supported compiler (MinGW or Visual Studio >= 7)
• LibXML2
• LibXSLT
• zlib
• gettext & iconv for win32
• OpenSSL (optional, required for some plugins)
• ASpell (optional, required for spell plugin)

Environment

Once you've installed all requried packages, make sure you've set the following environment variables are correct:

• QTDIR - the path to your Qt3 installation
• CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH - paths to the headers of all installed packages
• CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH - paths to the libraries of all installed packages

For example:

C:\>set
QTDIR=[TODO: write an example value here]
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\Programm\GnuWin32\Include;D:\Programm\OpneSSL\Include
CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=D:\Programm\GnuWin32\Lib;D:\Programm\OpenSSL\Lib\MSVC

If some values are missing, use should set them using set command:

 C:\>set QTDIR=[TODO: write an example value here]
 C:\>set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=%CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH%;D:\Programm\OpneSSL\Include

Compilation

After you've checked out the sources, create a new directory 'sim-im-build'. Now you can call cmake (or cmakesetup on win32) by switching into 'sim-im-build':

cmake ..\sim-im 

When cmake is ready and all required packages were found you can start compiling sim with 'make' (or mingw32-make or nmake)

See Also

Building with Cmake FAQ