0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <html> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <title>Building And Installing Fossil</title> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </head> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <body bgcolor="white"> 469002ccdf 2007-09-12 aku: <p>[ <a href="index.html">Index</a> ]</p> 469002ccdf 2007-09-12 aku: <hr> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <h1>Installing Fossil</h1> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <p>This page describes how to build and install Fossil. The 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: whole process is designed to be very easy.</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: a snapshot of the latest version directly from fossil's own fossil 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: repository. Follow these steps:</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>Pointer your webbrowser at 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <a href="http://fossil-scm.hwaci.com/fossil/login"> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: http://fossil-scm.hwaci.com/fossil/login</a>.</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>Log in as anonymous. The password is shown on screen. b110d77c36 2007-08-09 drh: The reason for requiring this login is to prevent spiders from b110d77c36 2007-08-09 drh: walking the entire website, downloading ZIP archives 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: of every historical version, and thereby soaking up all our bandwidth.</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>Click on the 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <a href="http://fossil-scm.hwaci.com/fossil/timeline">Timeline</a> or 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <a href="http://fossil-scm.hwaci.com/fossil/leaves">Leaves</a> link at 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: the top of the page.</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>Select a version of of fossil you want to download. Click on its 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: link. Note that you must successfully log in as "anonymous" in step 1 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: above in order to see the link to the detailed version information.</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>On the version information page, click on the b110d77c36 2007-08-09 drh: "Zip Archive" link. This link will build a ZIP archive of the b110d77c36 2007-08-09 drh: complete source code and download it to your browser.</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <h2>2.0 Compiling</h2> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: b110d77c36 2007-08-09 drh: <p>Follow these steps to compile:</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li value="6"> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <p>Create a directory to hold the source code. Then unzip the 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: ZIP archive you downloaded into that directory. You should be 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: in the top-level folder of that directory</p></li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p><b>(Optional:)</b> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: Edit the Makefile to set it up like you want. You probably do not 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: need to do anything. Do not be intimidated: There are only 5 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: variables in the makefile that can be changed. The whole Makefile 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: is only a few dozen lines long and most of those lines are comments.</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li><p>Type "<b>make</b>" 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <h2>3.0 Installing</h2> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li value="9"> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <p>The finished binary is named "fossil". Put this binary in a 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: directory that is somewhere on your PATH environment variable. 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: It does not matter where.</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <li> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: <p><b>(Optional:)</b> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: To uninstall, just delete the binary.</p> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </ol> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </body> 0e265b0184 2007-08-01 drh: </html>
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