Building Vulcan on Linux


ball.gif Externally process is similar to building Vulcan on Windows.
  
ball.gif After a CVS checkout switch to /path/to/source/vulcan/builds/posix and then:
  chmod o+x build_vulcan.sh
  ./build_vulcan.sh --help
  
to see the options:

 

  
ball.gif Executing
  ./build_vulcan.sh > make.log 2>&1
  
is all that is need to do the build. Appropriate environmental checks are made, build tools are built and the build process then undertaken.
  
ball.gif One dependency is not currently checked (but will be). A symlink called gmake (to make) needs to be on the path.
  
ball.gif A successful build will end up in the /path/to/source/vulcan/install directory and will take up around 170MB.
  
ball.gif Build is currently broken under SuSE 9.2 due to an older gcc. The build output combined with ViewCVS tells us why