gWaei README
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Welcome to the README file. This file is GPL licensed. If you plan on
redistributing this software you should read the COPYING file. For more help
than is written here, go to the projects webpage at
http://gwaei.sourceforge.net/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 PREREQUISITES
2.0 CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION
3.0 COMPILING ON WINDOWS
1.0 PREREQUISITES:
To run gWaei 3.6.x, an environment with at least gtk+-3.3.x/glib-2.31.x,
curl 7.20.0, gnome-doc-utils-0.14.0, and gsettings-desktop-schemas are
required. Additionally, you will want to have hunspell, mecab, and
ttf-kanjistrokeorders available.
* curl <http://curl.haxx.se/>
* ttf-kanjistrokeorders <http://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/>
* hunspell <http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/>
* mecab <http://code.google.com/p/mecab/>
* gtk/gnome <http://www.gtk.org/> or <ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/>
To compile the program, you will have to have the dev files for GTK+, CURL3,
hunspell and mecab available. Users with binary based distributions should install the
approprate "dev" or "devel" files for the above dependencies using their
package manager. Automake and GCC will come in handy too, as they are
standard build tools for GNU systems.
Debian/Ubuntu build Depandancies:
sudo apt-get install gcc autoconf automake make intltool gettext \
rarian-compat gnome-doc-utils dconf gsettings-desktop-schemas \
imagemagick libcurl4-gnutls-dev libhunspell-dev libmecab-dev libgtk-3-dev libtool
Debian/Ubuntu optional runtime dependancies:
sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-us mecab-ipadic fonts-kanjistrokeorders \
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Fedora build dependancies:
sudo yum install gcc autoconf automake make intltool gettext rarian-compat \
gnome-doc-utils dconf gsettings-desktop-schemas libcurl-devel hunspell-devel \
mecab-devel gtk3-devel libstdc++-devel libtool
Fedora optional runtime dependancies:
sudo yum install hunspell-en-US mecab-ipadic kanjistrokeorders-fonts \
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Arch build depandancies:
sudo pacman -S gcc autoconf automake make intltool gettext rarian \
gnome-doc-utils pkg-config dconf gsettings-desktop-schemas curl hunspell \
mecab gtk3 libtool
Arch optional runtime depandancies (other packages must be installed from AUR)
sudo pacman -S hunspell-en gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
For inputing Japanese queries, installing some software for Japanese
conversion is highly recommended. Currently, the three main linux methods are
UIM or SCIM using the ANTHY engine or iBus. For emergency situations where
users can't install either, gWaei has internal support for converting romanji
searches to hiragana/katakana automatically. (This conversion is disabled
for Japanese locals by default in the preferences.)
Hunpsell and mecab require the approriate dictionaries to be installed. Hunspell will usually
use the myspell dictionaries. mecab will use ipadict from
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mecab/files/mecab-ipadic/>
2.0 CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION:
When configuring, the most important variable for this program is the
prefix. Most users will install using steps similar to below.
2.2 CREATION OF MISSING FILES FOR A FRESH DOWNLOAD FROM THE GIT REPO
$ ./autogen.sh
2.3 BUILDING AND INSTALLING FROM THE SOURCE CODE:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
2.3 UNINSTALL:
$ sudo make uninstall
3.0 COMPILING ON WINDOWS:
gWaei has been tested and built on Windows with some success through MinGW.
Since I do not have a Windows PC of my own handy, I only get to test and
maintain builds sporadically through Wine. Your success will largely depend
on how well you have your MinGW environment set up.
I currently test using MinGW cross compilation and Wine on Fedora.
You will have to install the correct MinGW packages through yum, and
download a binary of gzip and the source to gnome-doc-utils manually.
yum install mingw32-gtk3 mingw32-curl mingw32-libxslt mingw32-libxml2 \
mingw32-hunspell
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-doc-utils/
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gsettings-desktop-schemas/
http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme
1. Install the source files with the commands
mingw32-configure --disable-scrollkeeper
mingw32-make
sudo mingw32-make install
2. Build gwaei by doing
mingw32-configure --disable-scrollkeeper --without-mecab
mingw32-make
sudo mingw32-make install
The mingw32-configure script will take care of PKG_CONFIG_PATH and such for
you.
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