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-rw-r--r--recordmydesktop/INSTALL19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/recordmydesktop/INSTALL b/recordmydesktop/INSTALL
index 393bf2e..14de910 100644
--- a/recordmydesktop/INSTALL
+++ b/recordmydesktop/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
-To compile the program you have to go through the regular drill:
+If you got this from cvs you need to have automake installed and run:
+
+~$ cd recordmydesktop #remeber to cd in the directory of the module
+ #you checked out
+~$ sh autogen.sh
+~$ ./configure
+~$ make
+~$ sudo make install
+
+If you got a release tarball, to compile the program you have to go through the regular drill:
~$ gzip -d recordmydesktop-x.y.z.tar.gz
-~$ tar -x recordmydesktop-x.y.z.tar
+~$ tar -xvf recordmydesktop-x.y.z.tar
~$ cd recordmydesktop-x.y.z
~$ ./configure
~$ make
@@ -13,6 +22,8 @@ depending on the distribution you use) for the following:
alsa (libasound)
X
+libICE-dev
+libSM-dev
libXext
libXdamage
libXfixes
@@ -20,7 +31,7 @@ libogg
libvorbis
libtheora
-Additionally you may need libICE-dev.
+
Last, you need the regular headers, plus the ones for pthreads
(both of which you should have if you have compiled anything else before).
@@ -29,8 +40,6 @@ Of the above, the most likely to be missing are probably those of libXdamage and
but any recent linux distribution should offer an easy way to get them.
-
-
Compiling on *BSD or other *nix flavors is not going to work(because of the alsa dependency)
but it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to change that(at least by disabling sound capture).
Future versions might include support for OSS-based sound capture.
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