HowTo Compile In Slackware
From AMule Project FAQ
Installing aMule on Slackware
by Mike (servnov)
wisecrackin' added by DexterF
NOTE: you will need super-user (usually root) access to complete aMule install/uninstallation/update, further you should have at least checkinstall installed.
Installation
Installing wxGTK
- Download wxGTK sources (.tar.gz packages) from
- www.wxwidgets.org, latest is 2.6.2 as of 21st of Dec 05
- tar -xzvf wxGTK*
- cd wxGTK*
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode
- make
- After make finishes, it's about time to install the new files.
- Usually this is done by becoming root and invoking
- # make install
- But: even better, use checkinstall or read up on how to
- properly make Slackware packages on slackwiki.org.
- checkinstall and selfmade packages can be handled by slackware's package
- tools, which make upgrading and removing old cruft from previous
- installs a breeze.
- If the Slackwiki howto is a little too much for, stick to checkinstall for
- the moment: become root
- $ su -
- then just call
- # checkinstall
- Just answer the questions and you're done.
Installing wxBase (Optional)
- If you downloaded wxGTK earlier than version 2.5 and you are planning to use aMule with command line interface (such as aMuleCMD, aMuleWeb, aMuled, etc), then you you should install wxBase. In any other case, there's no need at all.
- Download wxBase sources (.tar.gz packages) from http://www.amule-project.net or http://www.amule.org and do the following:
- tar -xzvf wxBase*
- cd wxBase*
- ./configure
- make
- #the following command must be run as super-user (usually root):
- make install
Installing aMule
- Grab pre-built Slackware package from linuxpackages.net.
- installpkg aMule-2.0.0rc7-i686-1.tgz (or whatever the newest version is)
- That's all!
Updating
- The following command will remove the old aMule package and install the new version:
- upgradepkg aMule-2.0.0rc7-i686-1.tgz
Compiling aMule from src
- Sometimes you might feel an urge to go cvs or simply don't want
- to use prepackaged binaries because of paranoia, the packagers
- are dodos or whatever.
- Download a src tarball at amule.org.
- tar xzvf or tar xjvf the tarball.
- Enter the dir
- I use this configure call:
- ./configure --enable-amule-daemon --enable-amulecmd \
- --enable-amulecmdgui --enable-webserver --enable-amule-gui \
- --enable-cas --enable-alcc --enable-kad-compile --prefix=/usr
- this will give you the core, the monolithic, the webserver,
- the stats program, the link handler, and... about everything.
- after that, run make and in the lucky case it finishes without
- errors, follow installation instructions from wxGTK above.
Uninstallation
- The following command will remove aMule:
- removepkg aMule
Final note
You can even get wxBase and wxGTK .tgz Slackware packages and install them with 'installpkg'. Using the Slackware package manager saves time during installation and makes upgrading easy. You can also type 'pkgtool' as root and then search for the packages you have downloaded and install and/or remove packages.
Enjoy the hard work aMule developers have done and continue to do!
Just remember you will need wxBase and wxGTK installed even when using Slackware package.
Hope this helps.
Catch me on IRC at irc.freenode.com channel #amule nick servnov.
Installing aMule on Slackware 12.0/12.1
Installation requirements
In order to compile aMule 2.2.1 on Slackware 12.0/12.1 you need the following packages:
- geoip 1.4.4 (from http://slacky.eu)
- libupnp 1.6.6 (if you want to use the UPnP feature, get the tarball from http://pupnp.sf.net)
- cryptopp 5.5.2 (from http://slacky.eu)
- wxGTK 2.8.7 (http://www.wxwidgets.org or a precompiled package from http://packages.slackware.it)
- If using Slackware 12.0 upgrade package gcc with >= 4.2.3-i486-1 (http://packages.slackware.it)
- If using Slackware 12.0 upgrade package gcc-g++ with >= 4.2.3-i486-1 (http://packages.slackware.it)
- (optional) ccache-2.4-i486-1 package if you want to speedup compiling
The minimum GCC version declared into the file docs/INSTALL appears to be obsolete as I encountered
the following error:
amule: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by amule)
Other packages - system libs rather strictly aMule related - that are needed: these are mentioned
at the end of the configure summary of aMule.
- regex system
- libintl system
- libpng 1.2.18
- libgd 2.0.35
- zlib 1.2.3
Compiling aMule
- First install/upgrade the above mentioned packages. Then compile cryptopp (no special flags required) and wxGTK (if not already present) with the following flags:
- $ ./configure --with-gtk --enable-unicode --enable-optimise
- Then compile aMule. Run the "configure" with the following parameters for a complete install:
- $ ./configure --with-denoise-level=3
- --enable-optimize
- --enable-verbose
- --enable-geoip
- --enable-wxcas
- --enable-amule-gui
- --enable-amulecmd
- --enable-amule-daemon
- --enable-alc
- --enable-alcc
- --enable-cas
- --disable-debug
- --enable-webserver
- --enable-ccache (optional, compiling speedup)
- --prefix=/your/install/path (optional, if different than /usr/local)
- If you are satisfied of the summary that is shown, run:
- $ make
- If you have a multi-core CPU you can speedup the compilation adding the parameter "-j" according to the number of logical/phisical CPUs detected on your system, example for a dual-core CPU:
- $ make -j 2
- If no error arise, you can run (as root):
- make install
- Finally run the "amule" executable:
- $ amule &
Building a Slackware package
The steps I followed to build a package change just a little.
- First I have installed amule in a different, dedicated path in order to check exactly the results, e.g. adding the following parameter to the configure script:
- --prefix=/home/$(whoami)/tmp/amule/usr
- Remember to append "/usr" at the end of the path.
- After installing ("make && make install"), strip down all the binaries with the following command in order to squeeze package size (a lot!):
- $ cd /home/$(whoami)/tmp/amule/usr/bin
- $ for i in alc alcc amule amulecmd amuled amulegui amuleweb cas ed2k wxcas; do strip $i; done
- $ cd ../..
- $ md install
- $ cd install
- Here edit "slack-required" and "slack-desc" files according to SlackBuild guidelines. I was lazy and just copied them from another recent Slackware aMule package (changing the relevant requirements).
- Then create the package:
- $ cd ..
- $ ls
- install usr
- $ makepkg aMule-x.y.z.tgz
- Test your build and then notify the forum posting the ed2k link (set to release priority the file) ;-)
