These notes were written for gsdl-2.39, but probably apply to other versions as well. You might find a more up-to-date version on-line at http://www.greenstone.org/docs/compiling.html. Greenstone version 2.39 was released on the 10th March, 2003.
(we include cygwin here).
The "standard" commands of$ ./configure $ make all $ make installshould (hopefully) be all that is required. Currently, Greenstone does not honour the `--prefix' flag, but the directories are self-contained, so should be able to be moved after installation.
You will probably need to use GNU make.
Version 2.38 of Greenstone compiles with gcc version 3.0 (as well as earlier versions of gcc). Earlier versions of Greenstone will require earlier versions of the compiler -- we have successfully used versions egcs-2.91.66 and gcc-2.95.
The Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) code is written in Java, and compiling it requires a suitable version of the Java Software Development Kit (version 1.4.0 or newer). To compile this source code, run makegli.sh from the gsdl/gli directory.
isis-gdl/CRC32.cpp isis-gdl/IsisTypes.h isis-gdl/Master.cppIf you copy these over the 3 files with the same name in gsdl/packages/isis-gdl then it should all compile ok with gcc 3.
The GDBM library and headers are needed - Linux distributions typically come with the library, but may or may not come standard with the header file. Darwin does not come with either. If it is not installed in /usr or /usr/local then you will have to specify where it is by using the configure flag --with-gdbm=/path/to/gdbm/dir.
The GDBM library can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz or a closer mirror.The following configure flags add extra functionality to Greenstone:
| --enable-corba | Creates a CORBA server as well as the .cgi server. This is currently
still developmental, and compilation hasn't been tested on many
platforms. A java CORBA client is available through anonymous CVS
(password anonymous) -
export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:2402/usr/local/global-cvs/gsdl-src cvs login cvs export -r HEAD java-client |
| --with-micodir | Use an existing MICO compiler for the CORBA server instead of compiling our included version. |
| --enable-z3950 | Enable rudimentary Z39.50 client support in the .cgi server. |
Also some of the third-party packages required some manual attention.
Make sure you have the gdbm package installed.
All compilation is currently done through a terminal.
Note that the default filesystem is case-insensitive.
Mac OS X uses a compiler based on gcc version 3, so read the above section on Unix Compilation Notes for changes required to the source code for greenstone version 2.41.
darwin doesn't come with gdbm, so:
FontFile.h:27: storage size of `_ZTI8FontFile' isn't known FontFile.h:46: storage size of `_ZTI13Type1FontFile' isn't known FontFile.h:67: storage size of `_ZTI14Type1CFontFile' isn't known FontFile.h:144: storage size of `_ZTI16TrueTypeFontFile' isn't knownThe work-around is to remove all lines with "#pragma" from the source-code of the pdftohtml package. See the bug report on pdftohtml's site. This will be fixed in Greenstone version 2.39 and later.
As mentioned above, version 2.38 of Greenstone compiles with gcc3. If you are using an earlier version of Greenstone, you will need to make sure you are using an older version of gcc, and not gcc2.96 or gcc3. Red Hat >= 7.0 comes with the newer versions of gcc by default.
You will need the gdbm.h header file. If you don't already have it, it is in the libgdbmg1-dev (debian) or gdbm-devel-1.8.0 (rpm) package.
We have had a couple of reports from SuSE users that one of our third-party packages (wget) fails to configure as it uses GNU msgfmt for translation catalogues - this is resolved by installing the gettext package. This seems to be already installed on other distributions.
Alpha architectures:
Well, the good news is that it compiles OK (for versions of gsdl >= 2.37
- earlier versions need updated config.sub files),
the bad news is that it fails to build collections. One possibility is that
mg (the backend code) doesn't like the 64-bit ints.
We no longer have solaris machines running in our department. However, Greenstone built and ran the last time I could log on (about version 2.33?), and we have reports of people getting current versions working, with minor changes.
Greenstone includes a perl module from CPAN, XML::Parser (+Expat), which has caused problems on some machines during the make. This is because perl uses it's own config file to get compiler settings, etc. We think we have worked around this. If you get compilation problems, you can do one of the following:
You might need to manually install the gdbm library, and you probably
need to use GNU's make. try setting the MAKE variable when
you run the configure script, such as:
$ MAKE=gmake ./configure [options]
or
$ ./configure [options] ... $ gmake all
We have tested with versions 4.2 and 6.0. Our distribution includes a cut-down port of the gdbm library for windows.
We compile Greenstone from the Windows command prompt. You must manually unzip files in the gsdl\packages\crypt and gsdl\packages\gdbm directories. After setting up the VC++ environment, simply type nmake /f win32.mak and everything should compile OK. For us, setting up the environment requires running the vcvars32.bat script, found in the VC++ installation directory (for us this is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin.)
The third-party packages (pdftohtml, wvWare, rtftohtml, xlhtml, etc) were compiled using cygwin.
The Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) code is written in Java, and
compiling it requires a suitable
version of the Java Software Development Kit (version 1.4.0 or newer).
To compile this source code, run makegli.bat from the
gsdl\gli directory.
Contact Us
If Greenstone doesn't work for you, please let us know! If you add information such as operating system and software tool versions to your request then it will help us to fix the problem.
If you have any updates or corrections to this documentation, then don't hesitate to send them to us.
Send mail to us at: greenstone@cs.waikato.ac.nz.
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Last modified 20 April 2004 by John McPherson