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FRED README FILE
Table of contents
0.0 Author and license stuff
1.0 What is fred? - A short description
2.0 Installation instructions
2.1 Prerequisits
2.1.1 Linux
2.1.2 Windows
2.2 Install from a package
2.2.1 Linux
2.2.2 Windows
3.0 Building the source
3.1 Shared vs static
3.2 Linux
3.3 Crosscompiling for Windows
3.3.1 Compiler
3.3.2 Qt
3.3.3 Fred
3.3.4 Packaging
0.0 Author and license stuff
fred Copyright (c) 2011-2013 by Gillen Daniel <gillen.dan@pinguin.lu>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1.0 What is fred? - A short description
TODO
2.0 Installation instructions
2.1 Prerequisits
2.1.1 Linux
Some sort of Linux with a recent kernel (2.6.x or above) and Qt v4.x.
2.1.2 Windows
Windows XP or newer.
2.2 Install from a package
2.2.1 Linux
Chances are I provide prebuild binary packages for Debian and Ubuntu. In
this case, you only have to fire up your distribution's package manager
and install fred. See https://www.pinguin.lu for more information and
download links. If you added my repository, simpy execute the following
command:
sudo apt-get install fred fred-reports
2.2.2 Windows
See https://www.pinguin.lu for more information and download links.
3.0 Building the source
3.1 Shared vs static
TODO
3.2 Linux
Compiling under Linux for Linux should be very simple. Just execute the
following commands:
cd /path/to/fred/source
./autogen.sh linux
3.3 Windows
Until beta5, fred for Windows was build under Windows. But it was a pain in
the bud to do so. Therefore I switched to crosscompiling under Linux which
works very well. If you want to build fred under Windows, good luck and
please, don't contact me if you have any problems! My only answer will be:
Crosscompile under Linux!
3.4 Crosscompiling for Windows
The following instructions are for Debian / Ubuntu like distros. If you are
using another distro, you will need to get the compiler and qt on your own.
3.4.1 Compiler
You will need the mingw-w64 gcc and g++ compiler. When using Debian/Ubuntu
install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install mingw-w64 mingw-w64-tools g++-mingw-w64 \
gcc-mingw-w64 mingw-ocaml
3.4.2 Qt
After you have a compiler, you will need to crosscompile Qt as it is
currently not available as package. Start by getting the source:
cd /some/temp/dir/
wget http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.4/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4.tar.gz
tar xfvz qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4.tar.gz
cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4
Unfortunately, Qt won't build until you apply two small patches:
patch -p1 </path/to/fred/qt_patches/mingw32-qt-4.8.0-no-webkit-tests.patch
patch -p1 </path/to/fred/qt_patches/qt-4.8.4-fix-sse-suppport-build-regression.patch
Now configure, compile and install Qt (I compiled it on my dual Xeon
machine with 24 cores (using make -j24) which took about 5 minutes. It
might take a bit longer on your machine :-p):
sudo ./configure -prefix /opt/qt-4.8.4-mingw -opensource -no-qt3support -no-multimedia -no-audio-backend -no-phonon -no-phonon-backend -no-javascript-jit -nomake examples -nomake demos -nomake docs -xplatform win32-g++-4.6 -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=i686-w64-mingw32-
sudo make
sudo make install
If you are asking you why the heck I used sudo to run configure, well, Qt
likes to copy some files to the prefix dir in that step which will fail
if you aren't root.
3.4.3 Fred
If all the above worked, you are ready to crosscompile fred:
cd /path/to/fred/source
./autogen.sh win32
The build process of hivex will probably complain and might even fail
with an error but normally the lib gets build before that without errors,
so just ignore it.
3.4.4 Packaging
TODO

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