Compiling under Linux (please Pin this Message)

[andenixa]

After weeks of struggling I have decided to throw a simple HowTo in compiling under Linux.

0) install c++ compiler and supplement libraries

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential zlibc zlib-bin libidn11-dev libidn11

1) you will need a subversion package, if you use Ubuntu it would look like:

sudo apt-get install subversion

2) cd to your home dir (just type cd) and make a directory like:

mkdir polsvn

3) checkout the SVN repository (RL from #pol IRC recommends 572 release)

svn checkout -r 572 https://polserver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/polserver/trunk polsvn

4) compile STLport5 (actually you can skip that now)

cd polsvn/lib/STLport5
sudo chmod u+x configure
./configure
./make

5) compile pol

cd polsvn/pol-core

6) build 32bit version of pol

sudo chmod u+x buildcore32
./buildcore32

7) done, now check polsvn/pol-core/dist

You should see files like:

pol-linuxbin-099-2012-10-21-ubuntu-dynamic.tar.gz
pol-linuxbin-099-2012-10-21-ubuntu.tar.gz


8) If you need MySQL you need to remove the comment from export USE_MYSQL=1 before compiling and use
dynamic version: pol-linuxbin-099-2012-10-21-ubuntu-dynamic.tar.gz
Also With installed MySQL a static build works also. (Tourley's comment)

pol-linuxbin-099-2012-10-21-ubuntu.tar.gz

[Turley]

Stlport is not used, so simply skip compilation.
And use the latest revision, or bugs will never be found :p

For mysql its not enough to use a dynamic build. You need to remove the comment from
export USE_MYSQL=1
With installed MySQL a static build works also.