Chapter 3. Installation
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Chapter 3. Installation

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Building from source

Building from source

This section describes how to build the Rooms project from source.

To build the software, you will need, at a minimum:

  • FreeBSD 10.3 or newer

  • the Boost C++ libraries

  • a Git client

In order to build the manual pages, you will also need, at a minimum:

  • groff

  • docbook2X

To build the Rooms website, you will need the 'xmlto' package.

Installation procedures

  1. Install the required packages.

    $ su -
# pkg install -y git groff docbook2X xmlto boost-all

  2. Download the source code.

    $ git clone https://github.com/mheily/rooms.git

  3. Change into the directory with the source code.

    $ cd rooms

  4. Run the configuration script. 

    $ ./configure

  5. Build the software and manual pages. 

    $ make

  6. Install the software. 

    $ su -
# make install
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