Compilation

Linux Build

Building with CMake

Building with Cmake FAQ

SVN snapshots compilation

To build SIM you should have automake-1.5 and autoconf-2.53, however, autoconf 2.13 works too, you just need to hack admin/cvs.sh to turn off "exit 1" on version check. Note that you will be unable to compile icq plugin without SSL support.

Requirements

• zlib
• libxml2
• libxslt
• OpenSSL
• Perl
• zip
• flex
• QT
• KDE - optional
• aspell - Optional, for spellchecker plugin

Compilation

• make -f admin/Makefile.common
  
• ./configure --prefix=<your_installation_path>
  
• make
  
• sudo make install
  
• Start SIM :-)
  

If your system doesnt support 'sudo' command try to use 'su' instead See "./configure --help" for more options, specially for --enable-final and --disable-debug.

To compile plugins you should run:

• cd plugins/<plugin_name>
• make
• sudo make install

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MINGW compilation

Requirements

• Mingw and Msys
• Q..3/Windows
• zlib
• libxml2
• libxslt
• OpenSSL
• Perl
• zip
• flex
• aspell - Optional, for spellchecker plugin

Toolchain setup

• Install Mingw. You need to install gcc-core, g++, binutils, w32api, mingw32-make. Add mingw's bin directory to %PATH%
• Install Msys. You need MSYS-1.0.10.exe
• Compile Q..3/Windows. Extract sources somewhere. Then create dirs "include", "include/private" in this folder. Then run configure-mingw.bat. Add Q..3's bin directory to %PATH%
• Compile and install zlib. specify --prefix=/mingw option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install libxml2. specify --prefix=/mingw option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install libxslt. specify --prefix=/mingw option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install OpenSSL. Extract sources, then run "ms\mingw32 no-asm". Then install as specified in INSTALL.W32 file into your Mingw installation dir.
• Install Perl. Add Perl's bin directory to %PATH%
• Install zip. Extract and put zip.exe in some dir in your %PATH%
• Install Flex. Extract and put flex.exe in some dir in your %PATH%.
• Install Aspell. You need this only if you want to compile spell plugin. Download development package for win32 aspell. Then extract include folder into mingw root folder, then put lib\libaspell-15-dll.lib into lib\libaspell.a, lib\libpspell-15-dll.lib into lib\libpspell.la in mingw root folder.

Compilation and Installation

• make -f admin/Makefile.common unfortunally doesn't work under Msys. This must be performed under Cygwin or some other *nix environment.
• ./configure --disable-kde --enable-win --with-qt-dir=... --with-ssl-dir=...
• make
• make INSTALL=install DESTDIR=/yor/destdir. After this you must manually put sim files in this layout:

/icons
/pict
/plugins
/po
/sounds
/styles
/libsim-0.dll
/sim.exe

• Or you can compile NSIS installer script install_win32\mingw\sim.nsi

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Win32-MSVC compilation

Requirements

• TortoiseSVN for getting the Sources
• Visual C++ 2005 Express + Platform SDK Core 2003
• Q/Free (Q../free 3.3.*.*)
• zlib [1]
• libxml2 [1]
• libxslt [1]
• OpenSSL [1]
• iconv [1] ( [1:] which are already in Project now.)
• Java Runtime (jar.exe) for creating the jisp's, add jre\bin or jdk\bin to path

or

• fastJar for creating the jisp's, %pathToFastJar% to path
• Bison && Flex for lexing the .ll files
• aspell - Optional, for spellchecker plugin

Compilation and Installation

• Compile Q..3/Windows. Extract sources somewhere. Then create dirs "include", "include/private" in this folder. Then run configure-msvc2005.bat -debug (or without Release). Add Q..3's bin directory to %PATH%
• Build qt3\tools\msg2qm
• Put msg2qm.exe in path for compiling the po-files or simple copy it to %windir%\system32\ .
• Compile and install zlib. specify --prefix=c:/libs option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install libxml2. specify --prefix=c:/libs option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install libxslt. specify --prefix=c:/libs option to ./configure script, then make&&make install.
• Compile and install OpenSSL. Extract sources, then run "ms\msvc no-asm". Then install as specified in INSTALL.W32.

• Environment vars (examples) to set:

• • QTDIR="C:\qt3"
  • QTLIB="qt-mt3.lib"

• Environment vars (examples):
  • QTDIR="C:\qt3"
  • Path=%Path%;%QTDIR%\bin
  • QTLIB="qt-mt3.lib"
  • OPENSSL_DIR="c:\openssl"

• Visual C++ Configuration:
  • set Executable Directories
    • Java-jdk\bin

• • set Include Directories
    • FLEX-2.5.4A-1-BIN\INCLUDE (or newer version)
    • aspell-0.60.2\interfaces\cc

• • set Library Directories:
    • • %QTDIR%\Lib

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compilation with CMake

Requirements

• TortoiseSVN for getting the Sources
• CMake 2.4.2
• Qt3 for your platform
• A supported compiler (linux: gcc; win32: MinGW, Visual Studio >= 7)
• LibXML2
• LibXSLT
• zlib
• Iconv (when you want to compile SIM-IM on win32)
• OpenSSL (optional, required for some plugins)
• ASpell (optional, required for spell plugin)

• Once you've installed all requried packages, make sure you've set the following environment variables correct-
  • QTDIR (the path to your Qt3 installation)
  • CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH (all paths to the headers of the installed packages - for example D:\Programm\GnuWin32\Include;D:\Programm\OpneSSL\Include)
  • CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH (all paths to the libraries of the installed packages - for example D:\Programm\GnuWin32\Lib;D:\Programm\OpenSSL\Lib\MSVC)

• 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 mingw-32make or nmake)