Cory Helfrich wrote: Hi!
> I don't have the Linux skills to help Oleg. Can someone > point him in the right direction? I'll try my very best. > Iam a novice in Linux. i have a question regarding SCID > x64 compilation for Linux-any guides, help available for > this task? There is a readme inside scid but it's too hard > to compile from scratch. Thanks for any kind of help.(P.S. > linux distr. is Ubuntu 8.04.1 x64) From your package manager (I guess it is called Synaptic, you may find it in Desktop / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager) you want to search for the following files: - tcl - tcl-dev - tk - tk-dev (Ubuntu 8.04 "hardy": to all non-believers, this is tcl/tk 8.4.16-1, just for the records...) Additionally, you want to install a C/C++ compiler, that is check if the packages - gcc - g++ is installed and, for simplicity, also add the packages it recommends and suggests. (libc6-dev, make and so on). You can do this by right mouse click on the package and select the packages from "Mark suggested" and "Mark recommended" submenue. It may be that you have the latter two already, but I'm not sure if Ubuntu still installs the compilers, especially not if you just selected a "desktop system". If you can add a bunch of packages like "development system" and you've no need to really save space at any costs, it could ease up life to just add this kind of preselection. (But it might be a bit big.) Now, your Ubunut should be ready to compile Scid, and you can proceed with the actual build of Scid itself. That is, all the above is only required once. Then fetch the current stable version of Scid from scid.sf.net, you may want to use this link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scid/scid-3.6.25.tar.bz2?download Now, unpack this file by: $ tar -jxvf scid-3.6.25.tar.bz2 ($ marks the command prompt) then just do: $ cd scid $ ./configure $ ./make $ sudo make install The last command will ask you for your password again and put scid to /usr/local/ and its subdirs. Now you should be able to call scid from the shell already by just $ scid You may want to create a nice launcher for the application. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
