This hardened MS DevStudio user just got CVS gIDE to run :-)

[David Malcolm <thetreesurgeon yahoo co uk>]

I don't know how many people are playing with gIDE at
the moment, but after much trying I've finally got CVS
gIDE running on my machine.  

I say "running"; there are a few problems with it,
which I could list, but it is CVS bleeding edge stuff
and I'm running some quite old versions of some of the
dependencies.  There're plenty of functionality in
there which works on my machine.

In case anyone else out there is trying this, here's
what I did to get it running.  Hopefully some of this
will be useful information to other people wanting to
hack on GNOME/gIDE who have experience with MS tools
but not with the GNU toolchain and find this sort of
thing overwhelming.  Perhaps this could evolve into a
FAQ answer?

- starting with my battered Red Hat Linux 7 x86
machine...
- installed new hard drive since I had hardly any
space left
- set up a directory structure consisting of
"my_prefix" to which everything is configured to be
installed plus subdirectories called "stable_source"
and "unstable_source"
- Wrote a shell script to set up various environment
variables to "my_prefix"; specifically it sets the
following
        export PATH=<my-prefix>/bin:${PATH}
        export LD_RUN_PATH=<my-prefix>/bin
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<my-prefix>/bin
- Grabbed loads of tarballed packages off the GNOME
ftp site and installed them to the prefix (using
"./configure --prefix=<my-prefix>", "make", "make
install"); specifically, these versions seemed to work
well together:
        stable ORBit-0.5.7
        stable gnome-libs-1.2.13        
        stable control-center-1.4.0.1
        stable gnome-print-0.28
        stable gnome-vfs-1.0
        stable libglade-0.16
        stable libxml-1.8.11
        unstable oaf-0.6.5
        unstable bonobo-0.35
        unstable gdk-pixbuf-0.10.1
        unstable gnome-vfs-0.4.2
        unstable gtkhtm-0.8.3
        unstable libunicode-0.4
Not all the above are necessarily needed, also I can't
remember what order I installed them.  But they seem
to work now :-)
- Checkout of CVS gal, gdl, gnome-build, gnome-debug
and gIDE.  Your mileage may vary.  I had to hack the
configure.in of gnome-build and gnome-debug to remove
a seemingly spurious requirement to have "unicode"
(either this, or the libunicode wasn't installing
itself properly).  Set them up using "./autogen.sh
--prefix=<my-prefix>", "make", "make install".
- Type "gIDE" and enjoy...

can you give me an idea of what functionality ought to
be working and what isn't implemented yet, so I can
try breaking it!

Oh, and maybe I did some of the above wrong.  Please
let me know if you spot anything.

Dave
<thetreesurgeon yahoo co uk>
(since my real email address is bust at the moment)

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