Re: [orca-list] The great secret of building from source

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hello David,

I wouldn't go as far to say its a great secret. Only that many of us are 
busy, and writing up a step by step howto is time consuming. Especially, 
since we don't know how familiar you personally are with building apps 
from source, and what Linux distribution you are using, and if you are 
starting with fairly recent packages etc. However, in order to help I'll 
give you a brief outline of the steps involved.

First, make sure you are running a distribution with at least Gnome 
3.4.0 or better. For this I recommend Ubuntu 12.04 as that's what I'll 
be using for my demonstration here.

Second, you need to install some development packages for grabbing and 
building the source.

sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install gnome-common
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca

If you are lucky this will grab most of the dependencies you will need 
to update to Orca latest. If not you will have to update ATK, At-Spi, 
etc which I don't have the time currently to explain in detail.

Finally, you need to clone the latest Orca sources from git, build, and 
install it.

git clone git://git.gnome.org/orca
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

The steps I give above grab the latest Orca sources, builds, it, and 
over writes the Orca that comes with Ubuntu by default. Don't do this on 
a production machine, and keep in mind  this is extremely bleeding edge 
code not suited for day to day use for most people. If you are 
interested in stable versions I recommend grabbing the source packages 
from the Gnome ftp archives and build those from scratch instead 
although Ubuntu 12.04 now has Orca 3.4.2 available in the proposed 
updates so if you are interested in testing stable releases that's the 
way to go.

Cheers!

On 5/17/2012 1:42 PM, David Sexton wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It seems many on this list are happily building and running orca from 
> source, but no one willing to share the great secret of what is or is 
> not required these days for things to work correctly.
> With the orca website out of date, this list would be the logical 
> resource to have this question answered and then the answer moved to 
> the orca site to bring it up-to-date again.
> So asking for the third time:
> What are the steps to build the current versions of orca+at-spi2 and 
> anything else necessary to help test things out.
> David
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