Feng installation instructions

+ Dependencies

In order to build feng you need:

- a full Posix compatible system (suggested any linux distribution)
- gnu toolchain (gcc >= 3.4 , make >= 3.80) [1]
- glib-2 >= 2.10 [2]
- ffmpeg >= 0.5 [3]
- libev >= 3.48 [4]

Optionally we additionally use:

- json-c [5] to provide realtime statistics

+ Build instructions

The following steps will be enough to build and install feng from release
sources.

- install the dependencies
- enter the feng unpacked directory
- type ./configure in order to prepare the makefiles, you may specify a non
  standard prefix and the other paths, please refer to ./configure --help for
  the full details
- type make to build the sources
- type make install to install the program, you should be root in order to
  install system wide.


+ Building from git

In order to use the live sources for our scm you need the following additional
softwares:

- git >= 1.5 [6]
- autotools (automake >= 1.9, autoconf >= 2.61) [7]
- ragel >= 6.6 [8]
- xsltproc [9]
- docbook-xsl-ns [10]

The sources reside at git://lscube.org/feng.git you can fetch them
by issuing

$ git clone git://lscube.org/feng.git

Please refer to the git website[6] and our site[0] for further documentation.

In order to generate the configure script you may use autoreconf

$ autoreconf -i

The standard build instruction applies form this step.



+ Links

[0] http://lscube.org                           -- LScube main website
    http://cgit.lscube.org                      -- LScube git repository

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/            -- GNU Compiler collection
    http://www.gnu.org/software/make/           -- GNU Make

[2] http://www.gtk.org                          -- Gimp Toolkit

[3] http://ffmpeg.org                           -- FFmpeg

[4] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html   -- Libev

[5] http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/         -- A JSON implementation in C

[6] http://git.or.cz                            -- Git Version Control System

[7] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/       -- GNU automake
    http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/       -- GNU autoconf
[8] http://www.complang.org/ragel/              -- Ragel State Machine Compiler
[9] http://xmlsoft.org                          -- XSLT processor
[10] http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/   -- DocBook Schemas and Stylesheets