******************************************************************************* ** Building TigerVNC ******************************************************************************* ================================ Build Requirements (All Systems) ================================ -- CMake (http://www.cmake.org) v2.8 or later -- FLTK 1.3.2 * Must be a patched snapshot to get full functionality * See "Building FLTK" below. -- If building TLS support: * GnuTLS -- If building native language support (NLS): * Gnu gettext 0.14.4 or later * See "Building Native Language Support" below. -- libjpeg-turbo * "Normal" libjpegv6 is also supported, although it is not recommended as it is much slower. ========================= Build Requirements (Unix) ========================= -- Non-Mac platforms: * X11 development kit -- If building Xvnc: * autoconf 2.57 or later * automake 1.7 or later * libtool 1.4 or later * OpenSSL v0.9.7 or later * Python v2.3 or later * zlib v1.2 or later * pkgconfig 0.20 or later If you are using an older RPM-based system which does not meet this minimum requirement (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4), then you can build pkgconfig 0.20 from the Fedora 5 source RPM: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/pkgconfig-0.20-2.2.1.src.rpm * gettext 0.14.4 or later If you are using an older RPM-based system which does not meet this minimum requirement (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4), then you can build gettext 0.14.5 from the Fedora 5 source RPM: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/gettext-0.14.5-3.src.rpm NOTE: gcj and libgcj are required when building the above source RPM. ============================ Build Requirements (Windows) ============================ -- MinGW or MinGW-w64 -- Inno Setup (needed to build the TigerVNC installer) Inno Setup can be downloaded from http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php. You also need the Inno Setup Preprocessor, which is available in the Inno Setup QuickStart Pack. Add the directory containing iscc.exe (for instance, C:\Program Files\Inno Setup 5) to the system or user PATH environment variable prior to building TigerVNC. ========================= Build Requirements (Java) ========================= -- Sun/Oracle JDK v5 or later or OpenJDK -- See "Building Java Support" below. ============= Building FLTK ============= TigerVNC requires FLTK 1.3.2 (or later). Although it will build and work with plain 1.3.2, to get full functionality and the best behaviour you need to build a patched version: 1. Check out FLTK 1.3.2 using Subversion: $ svn co http://svn.easysw.com/public/fltk/fltk/tags/release-1.3.2 fltk-1.3.2 2. For full functionality, apply patches. All patches can be found in the contrib/fltk/ directory. There are also some general fixes to FLTK that can be found in the contrib/fltk/fixes/ directory that might be useful. 3. Use CMake to build FLTK using the same procedures described below for building TigerVNC. The recipes in the "Build Recipes" section also apply. If you want optimized code, make sure to build with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release. 4. (optional) Use 'make install' to install FLTK into a directory of your choosing. 5. When building TigerVNC, set the FLTK_FLUID_EXECUTABLE CMake variable to the location of the fluid executable that was built in Step 3 or installed in Step 4. This gives CMake a hint as to where to find the FLTK library. 6. If you did not install FLTK, then set the FLTK_INCLUDE_DIR CMake variable to the location of the FLTK source directory. ================== Out-of-Tree Builds ================== Binary objects, libraries, and executables are generated in the same directory from which cmake was executed (the "binary directory"), and this directory need not necessarily be the same as the TigerVNC source directory. You can create multiple independent binary directories, in which different versions of TigerVNC can be built from the same source tree using different compilers or settings. In the sections below, {build_directory} refers to the binary directory, whereas {source_directory} refers to the TigerVNC source directory. For in-tree builds, these directories are the same. ================= Building TigerVNC ================= Building the TigerVNC Viewer on Unix/Mac Systems ------------------------------------------------ The following procedure will build the TigerVNC Viewer on Linux and Unix systems. On 64-bit systems, this will build a 64-bit version of TigerVNC. See "Build Recipes" for specific build instructions for building a 32-bit version of TigerVNC on 64-bit systems. cd {build_directory} cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" [additional CMake flags] {source_directory} make Building the TigerVNC Server on Modern Unix/Linux Systems --------------------------------------------------------- Building the TigerVNC Server (Xvnc) is a bit trickier. On newer systems containing Xorg 7.4 or later (such as Fedora), Xvnc is typically built to use the X11 shared libraries provided with the system. The procedure for this is system-specific, since it requires specifying such things as font directories, but the general outline is as follows (this procedure assumes that the viewer has already been built, per above.) > cd {build_directory} If performing an out-of-tree build: > mkdir unix > cp -R {source_directory}/unix/xserver unix/ > cp -R {xorg_source}/* unix/xserver/ (NOTE: {xorg_source} is the directory containing the Xorg source for the machine on which you are building TigerVNC. The most recent versions of Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora, for instance, provide an RPM called "xorg-x11-server-source", which installs the Xorg source under /usr/share/xorg-x11-server-source.) > cd unix/xserver/ > patch -p1 < {source_directory}/unix/xserver{version}.patch (where {version} matches the X server version you are building, such as "17" for version 1.7.x.) > autoreconf -fiv > ./configure --with-pic --without-dtrace --disable-static --disable-dri \ --disable-xinerama --disable-xvfb --disable-xnest --disable-xorg \ --disable-dmx --disable-xwin --disable-xephyr --disable-kdrive \ --disable-config-dbus --disable-config-hal --disable-config-udev \ --disable-dri2 --enable-install-libxf86config --enable-glx \ --with-default-font-path="catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins" \ --with-fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts \ --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb \ --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb \ --with-xkb-bin-directory=/usr/bin \ --with-serverconfig-path=/usr/lib[64]/xorg \ --with-dri-driver-path=/usr/lib[64]/dri \ {additional configure options} (NOTE: This is merely an example that works with Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS 6 and recent Fedora releases. You should customize it for your particular system. In particular, it will be necessary to customize the font, XKB, and DRI directories.) > make TIGERVNC_SRCDIR={source_directory} Building the TigerVNC Server on Legacy Unix/Linux Systems --------------------------------------------------------- Those using systems with older versions of Xorg must build a "legacy-friendly" version of the TigerVNC Server. This is accomplished by downloading and building the more recent Xorg modules in a local directory and then building Xvnc such that it links against the local build of these libraries, not the X11 libraries installed on the system. The "build-xorg" script in the TigerVNC source distribution (located under unix/) automates this process. The following procedure will build both the TigerVNC Viewer and a "legacy-friendly" version of the TigerVNC Server: cd {build_directory} sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg init sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg build [additional CMake flags] build-xorg generates a version of Xvnc that has no external dependencies on the X11 shared libraries or any other distribution-specific shared libraries. This version of Xvnc should be transportable across multiple O/S distributions. build-xorg should work on Red Hat Enterprise 4, its contemporaries, and later systems. It probably will not work on older systems. It has not been tested on non-Linux systems (yet). build-xorg can also be used to rebuild just the TigerVNC Server and Viewer, once the X11 modules and other dependencies have been built for the first time. This is convenient for testing changes that just apply to the TigerVNC source code. To accomplish this, run: sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg rebuild [additional make flags] For instance, sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg rebuild clean will clean both the Xvnc and vncviewer builds without destroying any of the build configuration or module dependencies. Building the Windows TigerVNC Viewer with MinGW ----------------------------------------------- If building the Windows version of TigerVNC on a Windows build system, use the following procedure. cd {build_directory} cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" [additional CMake flags] {source_directory} make If cross-compiling on a Unix/Linux system, then see the "Build Recipes" section below. Debug Build ----------- Add "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug" to the CMake command line. Portable (semi-static) Build ---------------------------- TigerVNC can under favourble circumstances be built in a way that allows the resulting binaries to run on any system without having to also install all the dynamic libraries it depends on. Enable this mode by adding: -DBUILD_STATIC=1 to the CMake command line. Note that the method used to achieve this is very fragile and it may be necessary to tweak cmake/StaticBuild.cmake to make things work on your specific system. ===================== Building Java Support ===================== TigerVNC includes a Java version of the TigerVNC Viewer, which can be used on any platform that has a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. The Java viewer works similarly to the native viewer, but with lower performance. To build the Java TigerVNC Viewer, add -DBUILD_JAVA=1 to the CMake or build-xorg command line. The build system will attempt to find an installed Java Development Kit (JDK) and determine the appropriate paths for the Java compiler (javac) and the JAR creation utility (jar). You can override these paths by setting the Java_JAVAC_EXECUTABLE and Java_JAR_EXECUTABLE CMake variables. You can also override the default flags that are passed to javac by setting the JAVACFLAGS CMake variable. The build system will look for keytool and jarsigner in the same directory as Java_JAR_EXECUTABLE. These tools are needed to sign the JAR file, which is necessary to enable certain functionality (such as clipboard transfers) when the Java viewer is used as an applet. If the Java viewer is built along with the Windows TigerVNC Server (WinVNC), then the build system will embed the Java viewer into WinVNC4.exe so that it will automatically be served up using WinVNC's built-in HTTP server. Similarly, if the Java viewer is built along with the Unix TigerVNC Server (Xvnc), then the build system will include the Java viewer in the server tarball. By default, a self-signed certificate will be generated and used to sign the jar file. By specifying the following command line arguments to the CMake command line, an alternate certificate may be used for signing. -DJAVA_KEYSTORE=${keystore_location_or_url} -DJAVA_KEYSTORE_TYPE=${keystore_type} (Default: "jks") -DJAVA_KEY_ALIAS=${keytore_key_alias} -DJAVA_STOREPASS=${keystore_password} -DJAVA_KEYPASS=${keystore_entry_password} -DJAVA_TSA_URL=${url_of_timestamping_authority} The values of the JAVA_STOREPASS and JAVA_KEYPASS arguments may optionally be read from file or environment variables by prefixing the value with ":env " or ":file " (see the jarsigner documentation for more info): export StorePass=tigervnc export KeyPass=tigervnc cmake \ ... -DJAVA_STOREPASS=":env StorePass" -DJAVA_KEYPASS=":env KeyPass" ====================================== Building Native Language Support (NLS) ====================================== NLS requires gettext, which is supplied with most Linux distributions and with MinGW for Windows and which can easily be built from source on OS X and other Unix variants. You can override the ICONV_LIBRARIES and LIBINTL_LIBRARY CMake variables to specify the locations of libiconv and libintl, respectively. For instance, adding -DLIBINTL_LIBRARY=/opt/gettext/lib/libintl.a to the CMake command line would link TigerVNC against a static version of libintl located under /opt/gettext. Adding -DICONV_INCLUDE_DIR=/mingw/include \ -DICONV_LIBRARIES=/mingw/lib/libiconv.a \ -DGETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR=/mingw/include \ -DLIBINTL_LIBRARY=/mingw/lib/libintl.a to the CMake command line would link TigerVNC against the static versions of libiconv and libintl included in the MinGW Developer Toolkit. =================== Installing TigerVNC =================== You can use the build system to install TigerVNC into a directory of your choosing. To do this, add: -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX={install_directory} to the CMake command line. Then, you can run 'make install' to build and install it. If you don't specify CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, then the default is c:\Program Files\TigerVNC on Windows and /usr/local on Unix. ========================= Creating Release Packages ========================= The following commands can be used to create various types of release packages: Unix ---- make tarball Create a binary tarball containing the TigerVNC Viewer make servertarball Create a binary tarball containing both the TigerVNC Server and Viewer make dmg Create Macintosh disk image file that contains an application bundle of the TigerVNC Viewer make udmg On 64-bit OS X systems, this creates a version of the Macintosh package and disk image which contains universal i386/x86-64 binaries. You should first configure a 32-bit out-of-tree build of TigerVNC, then configure a 64-bit out-of-tree build, then run 'make udmg' from the 64-bit build directory. The build system will look for the 32-bit build under {source_directory}/osxx86 by default, but you can override this by setting the OSX_X86_BUILD CMake variable to the directory containing your configured 32-bit build. Either the 64-bit or 32-bit build can be configured to be backward compatible by using the instructions in the "Build Recipes" section. Windows ------- make installer Create a Windows installer using Inno Setup. The installer package (TigerVNC[64].exe) will be located under {build_directory}. ============= Build Recipes ============= 32-bit Build on 64-bit Linux/Unix (including OS X) -------------------------------------------------- Set the following environment variables before building TigerVNC. CFLAGS='-O3 -m32' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -m32' LDFLAGS=-m32 If you are building the TigerVNC Server on a modern Unix/Linux system, then you will also need to pass the appropriate --host argument when configuring the X server source (for instance, --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu). 64-bit Backward-Compatible Build on 64-bit OS X ----------------------------------------------- Add -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk \ -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 to the CMake command line. The OS X 10.5 SDK must be installed. 32-bit Backward-Compatible Build on 64-bit OS X ----------------------------------------------- Set the following environment variables: CC=gcc-4.0 CXX=g++-4.0 CFLAGS='-O3 -m32' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -m32' LDFLAGS=-m32 and add -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk \ -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 to the CMake command line. The OS X 10.4 SDK must be installed. 64-bit MinGW Build on Cygwin ---------------------------- cd {build_directory} CC=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ \ RC=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres \ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows \ -DCMAKE_AR=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar \ -DCMAKE_RANLIB=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib {source_directory} make This produces a 64-bit build of TigerVNC that does not depend on cygwin1.dll or other Cygwin DLL's. The mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core and mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ packages (and their dependencies) must be installed. 32-bit MinGW Build on Cygwin ---------------------------- cd {build_directory} CC=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++ \ RC=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres \ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows \ -DDCMAKE_AR=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ar \ -DCMAKE_RANLIB=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib {source_directory} make This produces a 32-bit build of TigerVNC that does not depend on cygwin1.dll or other Cygwin DLL's. The mingw64-i686-gcc-core and mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ packages (and their dependencies) must be installed. MinGW-w64 Build on Windows -------------------------- This produces a 64-bit build of TigerVNC using the "native" MinGW-w64 toolchain (which is faster than the Cygwin version): cd {build_directory} CC={mingw-w64_binary_path}/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \ CXX={mingw-w64_binary_path}/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ \ RC={mingw-w64_binary_path}/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres \ cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" \ -DCMAKE_AR={mingw-w64_binary_path}/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar \ -DCMAKE_RANLIB={mingw-w64_binary_path}/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib \ {source_directory} make MinGW Build on Linux -------------------- cd {build_directory} CC={mingw_binary_path}/i386-mingw32-gcc \ CXX={mingw_binary_path}/i386-mingw32-g++ \ RC={mingw_binary_path}/i386-mingw32-windres \ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows \ -DCMAKE_AR={mingw_binary_path}/i386-mingw32-ar \ -DCMAKE_RANLIB={mingw_binary_path}/i386-mingw32-ranlib \ {source_directory} make =============================== Distribution-Specific Packaging =============================== RPM Packages for RHEL / CentOS ------------------------------ The RPM spec files and patches used to create the nightly builds and releases can be found in the "contrib/rpm/el{5,6}" directories of the TigerVNC subversion trunk. All external source tarballs must be fetched manually and placed into the 'SOURCES' directory under the rpmbuild root. Additonally, the following macros need to be defined: EL6: %debug_package %{nil} EL5: %dist .el5 %_smp_mflags -j3 %debug_package %{nil} %__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot Debian packages for Ubuntu 12.04LTS ----------------------------------- The debian folder used to create the nightly builds and releases can be found in the "contrib/deb/ubuntu-precise" directory of the TigerVNC subversion trunk.