[Bug 36] New: Simplify installation of zimlib/zimwriter

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http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36

Summary: Simplify installation of zimlib/zimwriter
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: zimlib
AssignedTo: tommi-+ciCUjOJn3Ednm+***@public.gmane.org
ReportedBy: volker.haas-***@public.gmane.org
CC: dev-l-***@public.gmane.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0


The process of installing zimlib/zimwriter is a little lengthy and requires to
much thinking and is therefore tedious. Furthermore I couldn't compile the
latest svn version and had to manually alter installation files.

Below follows a log of the installation process and the problems:

0) I used this info for installation: http://www.openzim.org/Releases

1) Install "external" dependencies:
This is basically straight forward, but it would be nice if the package name
for "libxz-dev" would be mentioned in the install help for some main distros
(ubuntu: liblzma-dev, arch: xz-utils).

2) cxxtools
Installation of that was straight forward and went just as expected. But
compilation took a long time - but there is probably not too much that can be
done about that.
dl source, configure, make, make install

3) tntdb
This is where the "trouble" started. For a bare installation needed for zimlib
the configure scripts requires a ton of non-standard options:

./configure --without-postgresql --without-mysql --without-sqlite
--without-doxygen

I suggest that the configure script is changed: the standard (no options)
behaviour would be the bare version (like above). If db support is required
options like "--with-postgresql" need to be used.

4) zimlib
no problems here

5) zimwriter
After running autogen.sh and configure "make" fails for me [1]
I resolved the problem by skipping wikizim [2]

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Installation would be simplified if less dependencies were required obviously -
but I guess this isn't exactly easy to achieve...

Alternatively I would have used binaries if available.


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[1]
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 -o zimcreatorsearch
zimcreatorsearch.o search.o ../src/libzimwriter.la
libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -o .libs/zimcreatorsearch zimcreatorsearch.o search.o
../src/.libs/libzimwriter.so /usr/local/lib/libzim.so -llzma
/usr/local/lib/libcxxtools.so -lpthread -ldl -lrt -lnsl -Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/lib
depbase=`echo wikizim.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -g -O2 -MT wikizim.o -MD -MP -MF
$depbase.Tpo -c -o wikizim.o wikizim.cpp &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
wikizim.cpp:23:30: fatal error: cxxtools/net/uri.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [wikizim.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tools/zim/zimlib/zimwriter/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tools/zim/zimlib/zimwriter/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[2]
[local] ~/zim/zimlib/zimwriter/ % svn diff
Index: src/Makefile.am
===================================================================
--- src/Makefile.am (revision 362)
+++ src/Makefile.am (working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libzimwriter.la
-bin_PROGRAMS = zimwriterdb zimindexer zimcreatorsearch wikizim
+bin_PROGRAMS = zimwriterdb zimindexer zimcreatorsearch #wikizim

AM_CPPFLAGS=-I$(top_builddir)/include

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http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36


Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel-***@public.gmane.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel-***@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-12 14:29:48 CET ---
Few remarks:
1- Distro. dependent... (but could maybe be possible as comment in configure).
2- Lots of templates I think... takes time.
3- If you want only the zimlib, cxxtools and tntdb should not be mandatory (I
use it without in kiwix).
4- yes
5- needs to be fixed.