Building Clutter
Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 3 Sep 2009 - 21:10 - 4 comments
for all the people that wish to build Clutter on Linux without having conflicts with their distribution packages we now have a JHBuild moduleset for tracking Clutter's development cycle.
the instructions are pretty simple; to start, you'll have to install a recent version of jhbuild (a lot of distributions package old snapshots):
git clone git://git.gnome.org/jhbuild cd jhbuild ./autogen.sh && make && make install
you won't require superuser privileges for installing JHBuild, or for building Clutter using JHBuild.
then, you will have to download the JHBuild configuration (see link on this post) and move it to the correct location:
mv jhbuildrc-clutter.txt ~/.jhbuildrc-clutter
the last step will build Clutter and its dependencies (except for the GL stack: for that you're better off using your distribution's packages):
jhbuild -f ~/.jhbuildrc-clutter build
done! :-)
along with the various libraries, in the moduleset there are meta-modules:
- meta-clutter: builds Clutter and the basic integration libraries (Clutter-GStreamer, Clutter-GTK)
- meta-clutter-extra: like meta-clutter, but it includes more integration libraries and NBTK, the Clutter-based Moblin toolkit
- meta-pyclutter: like meta-clutter, but for the Python bindings
happy building, and have fun!
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While I'm building
While I'm building 'meta-pyclutter' raised this error:
http://pastebin.com/m597cb1cd
Ideas?
yes, it's automake-1.11 being
yes, it's automake-1.11 being too overzealous about duplicates in the installation lists. it's already been fixed in pyclutter master.
Guys, there are additional
Guys, there are additional tricks to fix while installing clutter with jhbuild on Ubuntu, please, have a look at:
http://oriolrius.cat/wiki/doku.php?id=clutter:start
Under "Ubuntu 9.04 Clutter jhbuild mini-howto", issues, for further details.
Thanks !
Well, on centos 5.3 (which is
Well, on centos 5.3 (which is really too old and conservative to be trying this on!) I couldn't get the jhbuild thing past gtk-doc no matter what I tried.
So I followed the following simple (haha!) process.
Where I say "install from src" I just mean the usual untar package.version.tar.gz, cd package.version, make, make install unless noted otherwise..
I wouldn't recommend anyone do this, BTW, since it clearly violates the will of the package manager and stores up package-management trouble for the future.
All tarballs were got from the package homes, except util-macros-1.3.0.tar.bz2 which I got from http://www.paldo.org/index-section-packages-page-main-releaseid-128632.html
yum install libXdamage-devel (from rpmforge repo)
yum install gtk-doc (don't know if this necessary)
install from src:
autoconf-2.64.tar.bz2
automake-1.10.tar.gz
libtool-2.2.tar.gz
pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
...
cp /usr/lib/pkgconfig/*pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
...
install from src:
util-macros-1.3.0.tar.bz2
compositeproto-0.4.1.tar.bz2
libXcomposite-0.4.1.tar.gz
(I used autogen.sh, rather than ./configure, it seems :
cd ../libXcomposite-0.4.1
./autogen.sh
make
make install
)
...
install from src:
glib-2.22.0.tar.bz2
pixman-0.16.2.tar.gz
cairo-1.8.8.tar.gz
cairomm-1.8.2.tar.gz
fontconfig-2.7.3.tar.gz
( it was necessary to run make install again after manually running ldconfig :
cd fontconfig-2.7.3/
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig -v
make install
)
install from src:
pango-1.26.0.tar.bz2
at which point, cd clutter-1.0.6/, ./configure, make, make install succeeded
tried some of the interactive tests, first one I tried worked, but a couple segfaulted.
I noticed that
ldd /usr/src/clutter-1.0.6/clutter/.libs/libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0
showed libclutter-glx-1.0 linked against /usr/lib/libpango
so I did:
cp -ar /usr/lib/pango /usr/lib/orig/
cp -ar /usr/local/lib/pango/1.6.0/ /usr/lib/pango/
cp -ar /usr/local/lib/libpango /usr/lib
ldconfig
(this is a very bad thing to do to your system, I suspect!)
after which pretty much all the tests ran ok except the two offscreen tests (the first segfaulted, the second I had to kill off the commandline)