Exiv2

h1. Building exiv2 on Ubuntu using Automake

* This has been tested on Ubuntu14.04 64 and 32 bit minimal installations.
* Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
* This wiki page assumes that installation prefix is _/usr/local_ and your build-dir is _~/gnu/exiv2_

# Install some of the basic utilities
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y subversion make autoconf pkg-config g++ exifprobe clang #clang is required only if you wish to use it as the compiler instead of gcc
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# Install all the dependencies for building exiv2. Since exiv2 is already available in the Ubuntu repositories, this method makes life easier.
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sudo apt-get build-dep -y exiv2
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In case you get the error ...
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E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list",
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.. then edit _/etc/apt/sources.list_ . Copy all lines starting with 'deb' and replace the first word of these lines from 'deb' to 'deb-src' in their copied versions.
# Fetch the source code:
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mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
cd ~/gnu/exiv2
svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
cd trunk
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# Start building exiv2
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make config
./configure # if you are using clang, then do: ./configure CC=clang CXX=clang++
make # make CXXFLAGS=-ggdb for debug
sudo make install
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# Building samples
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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
make samples
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# Building tests.
** To execute tests: tests::
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cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk
make tests
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** Running other "test suites":http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/How_do_I_run_the_test_suite_for_Exiv2