wiki:building-arb-from-svn

Building ARB from SVN

This is a step-by-step tutorial for Ubuntu.

Building ARB for the first time

  1. Install required packages
    sudo apt-get install subversion 
    
  2. Get the source
    svn co http://vc.arb-home.de/readonly/trunk arb_svn
    
  3. Go into the downloaded directory
    cd arb_svn
    
  4. Install required packages
    sudo `pwd`/SH/arb_installubuntu4arb.sh compile
    

    To build the OPENGL version of arb, append openGL to the above call.

  5. Configure this directory to be your ARBHOME
    export ARBHOME=$PWD
    export PATH=$ARBHOME/bin:$PATH
    
  6. Run make to create the build configuration "config.makefile"
    make all
    
  7. Edit config.make file. Disable OpenGL dependent modules by setting "OPENGL := 0".
    ...
    # Include features using OPENGL? 
    OPENGL := 0
    ...
    

    Skip this step to build the OPENGL version of arb.

  8. Build ARB
    make all
    
    If you have a multi-core Computer, you can speed up building by adding "-jN" where N is the number of cores in your computer plus one.
    make all -j5
    

Building ARB frequently

If you like to build arb frequently on your machine, to stay up-to-date with the most recent changes, you may use the build-script included in arb sources.

Instructions how to use the script can be found at the beginning of the script.

Running the newly built ARB

  1. If you opened a new shell, repeat the steps to set the ARBHOME and PATH variables from building ARB
    export ARBHOME=$HOME/arb_svn
    export PATH=$ARBHOME/bin:$PATH
    
    (Assuming you put ARB in "arb_svn" directly in your home folder)
  2. Start ARB
      arb
    

Alternatively you may call arb directly using the full path:

$HOME/arb_svn/bin/arb

Updating ARB to the most current version

  1. Enter the directory where you compiled ARB and configure ARBHOME/PATH
    cd ~/arb_svn
    export ARBHOME=$PWD
    export PATH=$ARBHOME/bin:$PATH
    
  2. Update the source code
    svn update
    
  3. Make sure there are no local modifications (don't do this if you changed the source)
    svn revert --recursive .
    
  4. Rebuild ARB
    make clean && make all -j5
    
    (Normally, the "make clean" is not necessary. Rebuilding everything is safer, though.)

Last modified 14 months ago Last modified on Jul 31, 2023, 10:41:28 AM