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<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-SOURCE" id="INSTALLATION-SOURCE">2.2. Building from Source</a></h2>
- <p>The most convenient way to obtain the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sources is to download the
+ <p>The most convenient way to obtain the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> source code is to download the
source tarball from our <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/" target="_top">project
- download page</a>.</p>
- <p>If you like to live on the bleeding edge and are not afraid of using possibly unstable development versions,
- you can check out the up-to-the-minute version directly from <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/code/?source=navbar" target="_top">the CVS repository</a>.</p>
+ download page</a>, or you can get the up-to-the-minute, possibly unstable, development version from <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">https://www.privoxy.org/</a>.</p>
<p>To build <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source, <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html" target="_top">autoconf</a>, <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html" target="_top">GNU make (gmake)</a>, and, of course, a C compiler
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- <pre class="SCREEN"> tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.27-beta-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.27-beta</pre>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"> tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.27-stable-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.27-stable</pre>
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- <p>For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client installed. Note that sources from CVS are
- typically development quality, and may not be stable, or well tested. To download CVS source, check the
- Sourceforge documentation, which might give commands like:</p>
+ <p>To build the development version, you can get the source code by doing:</p>
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- <pre class="SCREEN"> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
- cd current</pre>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"> cd <root-dir>
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git</pre>
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- <p>This will create a directory named <tt class="FILENAME">current/</tt>, which will contain the source tree.</p>
- <p>You can also check out any <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class="QUOTE">"branch"</span>, just
- exchange the <span class="APPLICATION">current</span> name with the wanted branch name (Example: v_3_0_branch for
- the 3.0 cvs tree).</p>
- <p>It is also strongly recommended to not run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should
+ <p>This will create a directory named <tt class="FILENAME"><root-dir>/privoxy/</tt>, which will contain
+ the source tree.</p>
+ <p>Note that source code in GIT is development quality, and may not be stable or well tested.</p>
+ <p>It is strongly recommended to not run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should
configure/install/run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a
<span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span> user and group just for this purpose. See your local documentation for the
correct command line to do add new users and groups (something like <b class="COMMAND">adduser</b>, but the
<p>For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat RPMs, Windows self-extracting installers, building on
platforms with special requirements etc, please consult the <a href=
"https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/newrelease.html" target="_top">developer manual</a>.</p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="WINBUILD-CYGWIN" id="WINBUILD-CYGWIN">2.2.1. Windows</a></h3>
+ <div class="SECT4">
+ <h4 class="SECT4"><a name="WINBUILD-SETUP" id="WINBUILD-SETUP">2.2.1.1. Setup</a></h4>
+ <p>Install the Cygwin utilities needed to build <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If you have a 64
+ bit CPU (which most people do by now), get the Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe program <a href=
+ "https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe" target="_top">here</a> (the .sig file is <a href=
+ "https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig" target="_top">here</a>).</p>
+ <p>Run the setup program and from View / Category select:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"> Devel
+ autoconf 2.5
+ automake 1.15
+ binutils
+ cmake
+ gcc-core
+ gcc-g++
+ git
+ make
+ mingw64-i686-gcc-core
+ mingw64-i686-zlib
+ Editors
+ vim
+ Libs
+ libxslt: GNOME XSLT library (runtime)
+ Net
+ curl
+ openssh
+ Text
+ docbook-dssl
+ docbook-sgml31
+ docbook-utils
+ openjade
+ Utils
+ gnupg
+ Web
+ w3m</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>If you haven't already downloaded the Privoxy source code, get it now:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"> mkdir <root-dir>
+ cd <root-dir>
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>Get the source code (.zip or .tar.gz) for tidy from <a href="https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/releases"
+ target="_top">https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/releases</a>, unzip into <root-dir> and build the
+ software:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"> cd <root-dir>
+ cd tidy-html5-x.y.z/build/cmake
+ cmake ../.. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIB:BOOL=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
+ make && make install</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>If you want to be able to make a Windows release package, get the NSIS .zip file from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/files/NSIS%203/" target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/files/NSIS%203/</a> and extract the NSIS directory to <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">privoxy/windows</tt>. Then edit the windows/GNUmakefile to set the location of the NSIS executable
+ - eg:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN"># Path to NSIS
+MAKENSIS = ./nsis/makensis.exe</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT4">
+ <h4 class="SECT4"><a name="WINBUILD-BUILD" id="WINBUILD-BUILD">2.2.1.2. Build</a></h4>
+ <p>To build just the Privoxy executable and not the whole installation package, do:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
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+ <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING"> cd <root-dir>/privoxy
+ ./windows/MYconfigure && make</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>Privoxy uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system" target="_top">GNU Autotools</a>
+ for building software, so the process is:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING"> $ autoheader # creates config.h.in
+ $ autoconf # uses config.h.in to create the configure shell script
+ $ ./configure [options] # creates GNUmakefile
+ $ make [options] # builds the program</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>The usual <tt class="LITERAL">configure</tt> options for building a native Windows application under
+ cygwin are</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="LITERALLAYOUT"> --host=i686-w64-mingw32
+ --enable-mingw32
+ --enable-zlib
+ --enable-static-linking
+ --disable-pthread
+ --disable-dynamic-pcre</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>You can set the <tt class="LITERAL">CFLAGS</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">LDFLAGS</tt> envars before running
+ <tt class="LITERAL">configure</tt> to set compiler and linker flags. For example:</p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING"> $ export CFLAGS="-O2" # set gcc optimization level
+ $ export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--nxcompat" # Enable DEP
+ $ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-mingw32 --enable-zlib \
+ > --enable-static-linking --disable-pthread --disable-dynamic-pcre
+ $ make # build Privoxy</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>See the <a href="../developer-manual/newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS" target="_top">Developer's
+ Manual</a> for building a Windows release package.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
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<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED" id="INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">2.3. Keeping your Installation
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