Problems compiling Abiword [Solved]

[whimar]

Hi all,

I am trying to compile abiword; however, I am running into some issues. Below is where I think it fails. I have tried to resolve these dependencies but to little avail.

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  cairo-pdf cairo-ps pangocairo
  gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 librsvg-2.0 >= 2.16.0
) were not met:

No package 'fribidi' found
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'gthread-2.0' found
No package 'gobject-2.0' found
No package 'libgsf-1' found
No package 'wv-1.0' found
No package 'cairo-pdf' found
No package 'cairo-ps' found
No package 'pangocairo' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-unix-print-2.0' found
No package 'librsvg-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPS_CFLAGS
and DEPS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.



Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

[Noons]

Have you tried the version included in the standard repo's?

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yum install abiword

[whimar]

Abiword is not in standard repo.

I could grab a 2.4 version from one of the fedora repos; however the latest release is in the 2.8 series.

Id like to get the latest release working if I could

[whimar]

Im starting to resolve some of the dependencies!

Only these left to go

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No package 'libgsf-1' found
No package 'wv-1.0' found
No package 'cairo-pdf' found
No package 'cairo-ps' found
No package 'pangocairo' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-unix-print-2.0' found
No package 'librsvg-2.0' found

Maybe I'll get there

[whimar]

Well I resolved all the dependencies!

However it seems I need to download and compile a newer GTK2. Oh well, lets see what deps that throws up! This is going to be a long night

[whimar]

Well after compiling glib,cairo,poppler and some other deps. When I finally went to compile GTK2 it didnt happen. Then all my apps lost their fonts and I had a huge blocky mess!

Well I'll try again some other time and just use google docs for now!

[CronoCloud]

Ahhh, I bet your environment isn't set up with source compiles in mind, and I also bet that freetype tripped you up. Pango is picky! It' won't compile the pangocairo backend (which you need) without a new enough freetype (version changes with each pango release)

Something similar happened to me when I didn't have a new enough freetype for a newer pango back in the PS2 Linux kit days.

Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)

[whimar]

Well with help from CronoCloud and a little patience and tinkering I managed to get Abiword to compile successfully.

I'll include the steps I took below just in case anyone else needs to compile it in the future. This is not intended as a tutorial, just some guidance for people who may need it. Any special actions taken are included in brackets)

Firstly get your build environment in order: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4800

Then download and compile these in order:

pkgconfig
glib
atk
freetype
expat
fontconfig (had to use ./configure --disable-docs here otherwise it would not configure correctly as reference here: http://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-suppor ... 05798.html)
libxft (Was giving me a headache about libXrender even though it was installed. Resolved the issue by yum remove libXrender-devel and reinstall using yum. Also remove libXrandr-devel)
pixman
cairo
pango
GTK
Abiword (Had to yum install fribidi-devel wv-devel librsvg2-devel to satisfy deps. The make on this took forever!!)

And Voila!

Big thanks to CronoCloud!

BTW... I still have no .docx support!!

[CronoCloud]

I think .docx support is in the abiiword plugins package. IIRC. I had to do something special to get it to compile but I forgot to write down what it was, it was disabling a feature in in the ./configure command line. And I had to yum install some packages for dependencies.

But it did work.

Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)