Installation Instructions

Binary Packages

Binaries packages for Windows and .deb and .rpm builds for Linux are available for download from http://darbs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/darbs/branches/xml/release/.

Building From Source

Dependencies

DARBS is fairly light on dependencies. In order to build it you need:

• An up-to-date compiler chain (DARBS is currently tested using GCC-4.4 and MinGW, but should compile with any recent version GCC, MSVC++ or MinGW)
• Boost C++ libraries - http://www.boost.org
• CMake - http://www.cmake.org/

For building on Windows the nuwen MinGW distribution provides a complete toolchain including a compiled version of Boost.

Optional Dependencies

• Sphinx - Used to build the documentation - http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

Getting DARBS

A tarball of the latest stable version of DARBS can be downloaded from http://darbs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/darbs/branches/xml/release/.

To get the latest version DARBS from the svn repository, run the following command:

svn co https://darbs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/darbs/branches/xml darbs

Building DARBS

To create the files needed to build each DARBS run the following commands from the root folder:

cd build
cmake -G "OUTPUT_TYPE" ../

Where you replace OUTPUT_TYPE with the build system you are going to use. For a full list of supported generators see http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#section_Generators.

To build all the components of DARBS you then follow the regular procedure for whatever build system you are using. For example on a Unix system the complete series of commands would be:

cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
make install