Building VirtualT on Linux

What is this "Linux" You Speak Of?

These instructions have been tested on

• Ubuntu
• Slackware

Please add to the list if you have tested on another distro

This Sounds Hard... Why All The Steps?

Because of the variety of Linux distros we need volunteer support to maintain good "packages" for each one. That's the best route... then no documentation is needed for install. Short of that, Linux users simply have to build VirtualT themselves. Of course the benefit of building it yourself is that you always have the latest and greatest features (and bugs... but that's what makes life exciting, right?).

Download Latest VirtualT Source

Open a command prompt and type:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@virtualt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/virtualt co -P VirtualT

Download, Build FLTK dependency

VirtualT depends on the FLTK library. FLTK is hosted at http://www.fltk.org/software.php . Download a version of fltk. These instructions were developed with fltk-1.1.7 . Decompress the package.

Change directory into fltk-x.y.z

Configure and make fltk:

./configure --enable-localjpeg --enable-localzlib --enable-localpng
make

Building VirtualT

cd into VirtualT,

export FLTKDIR=/where/is/fltk-x.y.z
make

then make should work.

You should end up with a file titled 'virtualt' in your build directory. You can launch it by typing

./virtualt