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philja · 11-23-2015, 11:02 AM

My original comment was on the thread about Unofficial Sigil Ubuntu-ish binary packages where I expressed my pleasure in recovering from a disappointing build experience by finding the pre-compiled deb package for 0.8.6.

I had been following the quite detailed instructions on the sigil site in BuildingOnLinux.md to install sigil on a 32 bit laptop running Debian Jessie 8.2. I had checked and installed all missing dependencies listed and the first failure was on the "sudo pip3 install lxml" where the pip.log states : "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz"

Not having a great deal of experience on linux, I didn't know where to go from there and while searching found the pre-compiled package for sigil0.8.6 which I had running inside 10 minutes and with which I have already modified the ncx in my first epub on my work machine.

DiapDealer suggested that a good place to continue with 0.9.0 would be to install the zlib1g-dev package.

I installed zlib1g-dev and the pip3 install lxml then completed.

I moved on to the next stage running :

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt5.4.2/5.4/gcc/lib/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../sigil-src

This failed with a message "Failed to find"GL/gl.h" in "usr/include/libdrm" which raises the spectre of another missing dependency.

It is true that I do not have a "usr/include/libdrm/GL/".

So, please, what is GL and which package would that come from ?

11-23-2015, 11:02 AM	#1
philja Addict Posts: 220 Karma: 516 Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Europe EEC Device: Kindle Fire HD6 & HD8	Difficulty with building sigil 0.9.0 on linux My original comment was on the thread about Unofficial Sigil Ubuntu-ish binary packages where I expressed my pleasure in recovering from a disappointing build experience by finding the pre-compiled deb package for 0.8.6. I had been following the quite detailed instructions on the sigil site in BuildingOnLinux.md to install sigil on a 32 bit laptop running Debian Jessie 8.2. I had checked and installed all missing dependencies listed and the first failure was on the "sudo pip3 install lxml" where the pip.log states : "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz" Not having a great deal of experience on linux, I didn't know where to go from there and while searching found the pre-compiled package for sigil0.8.6 which I had running inside 10 minutes and with which I have already modified the ncx in my first epub on my work machine. DiapDealer suggested that a good place to continue with 0.9.0 would be to install the zlib1g-dev package. I installed zlib1g-dev and the pip3 install lxml then completed. I moved on to the next stage running : cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt5.4.2/5.4/gcc/lib/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../sigil-src This failed with a message "Failed to find"GL/gl.h" in "usr/include/libdrm" which raises the spectre of another missing dependency. It is true that I do not have a "usr/include/libdrm/GL/". So, please, what is GL and which package would that come from ?