vslavik/diff-pdf — Issue #4: Additional instructions for novices?
Author: daluu
Created: 2012-02-11 00:25:30+00:00
State: open

Linux (and Mac OS X) users range from the novice to the guru in terms of compiling software from sources. If it isn't too much trouble, it would be nice to provide additional info on tackling all the required dependencies and then compiling the tool on Linux based machines. This is particularly of use as their is no precompiled version available for Linux distros.

For this suggestion, assume we have a barebones Linux installation (whatever distro) that likely has none of the 3 dependencies installed (wxWidgets, Cairo, Poppler).

I found that Cairo may be the easiest so far to tackle as you can install the distro packages for your chosen distro. Can't quite seem to compile wxWidgets and Poppler as I may be missing something here and there.