Prerequisites for Building PSPP from Git ---------------------------------------- To build this project from the sources direct from the Git archive, you must install the prerequisites listed in README, plus the following: * Autoconf 2.60 (or later). * Automake 1.10 (or later). * Gettext 0.17 (or later). * GNU M4 1.4.9 (or later). * pkg-config 0.21 (or later). * gperf 3.0.1 (or later). * Gnulib (see below for details). * libtool 1.5.22 (or later). * Texinfo 5.2 or later, to build the documentation. * Gimp -- 2.8.2 is known to work After you install PSPP's prerequisites, you must obtain a copy of Gnulib, then bootstrap the tree, as described in the sections below. After that, you may follow the procedure described in INSTALL. Obtaining Gnulib ---------------- This version of PSPP should work with the Gnulib commit shown below. Gnulib does not maintain a stable API or ABI, so it is possible that PSPP will not work with older or newer versions of Gnulib. commit 9ce9be2ef0cb1180e35dfe9dfbbe90d774b374bd (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Karl Berry Date: Thu Jul 4 08:23:14 2019 -0700 autoupdate To clone Gnulib into a directory named "gnulib" using Git, and then check out this particular commit, run these commands: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git gnulib cd gnulib git checkout $COMMIT where $COMMIT should be replaced by the commit number listed above (usually it is sufficient to just type the first 6 or so digits). If you do not have Git installed, then you may alternately download http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=snapshot;h=$COMMIT;sf=tgz where $COMMIT is, again, at least the first few digits of the commit number listed above. This download will yield a tar.gz file that you may extract with "gunzip" and "tar" to yield identical results. Bootstrapping ------------- Once you have Gnulib installed, PSPP must be "bootstrapped" using the following command: make -f Smake If you checked Gnulib out in a directory named `gnulib' at the same level as PSPP, then this is sufficient. Otherwise, provide the location of GNULIB on the `make' command line: make -f Smake GNULIB=/gnulib/base/directory/name After executing Smake, follow the procedure described in INSTALL to build and install PSPP. On some systems this may be as simple as: ./configure make Once PSPP is built, you may run its self-tests with: make check or for a more thorough test: make distcheck Glade UI Design --------------- The ui files in src/ui/gui may be viewed (maybe changed) with Glade. For this you need * libgladeui 2.0 or later Then you need to run configure --with-gui-tools make make install psppire uses some self defined widgets. To use glade these widgets have to be announced to glade such that you can view the interface. The install process will install the psppire glade library, icons and psppire.xml files in the appropriate system locations. You cannot override this with --prefix. After that you can run "glade" and open the ui files. Building from git on Mac OS --------------------------- You can build on MacOS in the macports environment. After installing all required packages to resolve library dependencies and autotools e.t.c, you run make -f Smake as described above. The macports system provides the libraries and header files in a separate location from the MacOS system libraries. The typical locations are Libraries: /opt/local/lib Headers: /opt/local/include pspp under macports will be linked against the macports libraries. The configure script has to be informed about the library and header locations. Assume the following directory structure for an out of tree build: ~/mypspp |----pspp (This is the pspp git directory) |----install (The install location containing also ui files for psppire) |----build (The build directory) |----gnulib (The gnulib directory as described above) Then you can build with the following commands: cd ~/mypspp/pspp make -f Smake cd ../build ../pspp/configure --prefix=/Users/USER/mypspp/install \ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib \ CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include make make install ../install/bin/psppire (If everything worked, you should see psppire...)