Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of Building

Timestamp:

11/03/13 06:45:08 (5 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Building

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 For running the *nix server, you will need {{{Xvfb}}} or [http://xpra.org/Xdummy.html Xdummy] (if available for your platform), xauth, keyboard utilities and xauth.
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+== Switches ==
+There are a number of build switches, which you can see with:
+{{{
+./setup.py --help
+}}}
+[[BR]]
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+Many of those switches are related to [/wiki/Encodings picture encodings].
+On some platforms with older versions of libraries, it is possible, preferable and often mandatory to build static versions of the codecs. (see "{{{--with-static*}}}" flags)
+[[BR]]
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+== Patching ==
+There are a number of [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/patches patches in the source tree] that may need to be applied to build on some platforms to deal with library or tools compatibility.
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+In particular, many Debian versions require the "{{{old-libav*}}}" patches.