Compiling on Fedora Linux

[kai.weeks]

Hi,


I have successfully compiled OpenCPN 4.99.0 Build 2018-02-10 on Fedora 28.



Struggling with the information provided at:
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...llation:fedora

I have also been struggling with the repos kindly hosted and provided at: Index of /repo/fedora


So I thought I'd give some details on what I did to get it working here on the forums. I use 'dnf' as my package manager on Fedora.


The following is definitely required:

sudo dnf install git cmake gcc-c++ mesa-libGLU-devel gtk3-devel wxGTK3-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel

If running cmake (as instructed at the bottom of this post) at this point then cmake will mention missing libraries:

-- Portaudio Not Found...
-- Could NOT find TinyXML (missing: TINYXML_INCLUDE_DIR TINYXML_LIBRARIES) 
-- Could NOT find LibArchive (missing: LibArchive_LIBRARY LibArchive_INCLUDE_DIR)
--  Could NOT find LibLZMA (missing: LIBLZMA_INCLUDE_DIR LIBLZMA_LIBRARY  LIBLZMA_HAS_AUTO_DECODER LIBLZMA_HAS_EASY_ENCODER  LIBLZMA_HAS_LZMA_PRESET) 
-- Could NOT find EXIF (missing: EXIF_LIBRARY EXIF_INCLUDE_DIR) (found version "")
--  Some or all of the gtk libraries were not found. (missing:  GTK2_GTK_LIBRARY GTK2_GTK_INCLUDE_DIR GTK2_GDK_INCLUDE_DIR  GTK2_GDKCONFIG_INCLUDE_DIR GTK2_GDK_LIBRARY)

They are to be found in these following packages. Note that OpenCPN compiles without them but they are probably required for some program functionality.

sudo dnf install portaudio-devel libexif-devel lzma-devel tinyxml-devel libarchive-devel

Finally some other packages have been recommended to be installed for OpenCPN but I see no mention of them when compiling:

sudo dnf install rpm-build libstdc++-devel gtk2-devel wxGTK-devel mesa-libGL-devel gettext bzip2-devel

So, anyway, once you are happy that the dependencies are all installed then it's just to do the following:

git clone git://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN.git

cd OpenCPN
git pull //# Unless you've just cloned.//

cd OpenCPN   //# unless already in this directory.//
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make

sudo make install

That should be it!