taskwarrior/README.build
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Taskwarrior Build Notes
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Taskwarrior 1.9 has dependencies that are detected by the configure program in
almost all cases, but there are situations and operating systems that mean you
will need to offer configure a little help.
If taskwarrior will not build on your system, first take a look at the Operating
System notes below. If this doesn't help, then go to the Troubleshooting
section, which includes instructions on how to contact us for help.
Operating System Notes
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Cygwin 1.7
Building taskwarrior on Cygwin 1.7 requires a configure option:
./configure --with-ncurses-inc=/usr/include/ncurses
This is because the ncurses include files are in a different location to
Cygwin 1.5.
Haiku Alpha/R1
Taskwarrior must be built with gcc version 4.x, so make sure you run:
$ setgcc gcc4
To switch from gcc 2.95 to gcc 4.x.
Troubleshooting
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In most cases, it is sufficient to run the configure program like this:
$ ./configure
Configure will run and locate all the necessary pieces for the build, and create
a Makefile. There may be errors and warnings when running configure, or there
may be compiler errors and warnings when running 'make'. Sometimes you will run
configure with no reported problems, and the build will fail later. This is
almost always because configure is mistaken about some assumption.
The configure program can accept several options that help with its ability to
locate and use the ncurses library. They are:
--with-ncurses
This option tells configure that no matter what it thinks, ncurses is
definitely on this system and should be enabled. If needed, this option
probable needs to be accompanied by the next two options.
--with-ncurses-inc=/usr/include
If configure cannot find ncurses header files, this option will tell it
exactly where to look. The path specified in this example is the default,
so that probably won't help you. The path should be the directory in which
the file 'ncurses.h' resides. Here are some possible values to try:
/usr/include (the default shown above)
/usr/include/ncurses
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/include/ncurses
This should cover most systems, but new variations keeps cropping up.
--with-ncurses-lib=/usr/lib
If configure cannot find the ncurses library, this option will tell it
exactly where to look. The path specified in this example is the default,
so that probably won't help you. The path should be the directory in which
the file 'libncurses.a' (or your system's equivalent) resides. Here are
some possible values to try:
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib
This should cover most systems, but new variations keeps cropping up.
--without-ncurses
This disables ncurses support in taskwarrior, and should really be used as a
last resort. We know of no systems where this is needed.
If trying these options does not succeed, please send the contents of the
'config.log' files to support@taskwarrior.org, or post a message in the support
forums at taskwarrior.org along with the information.
If configure runs, but taskwarrior does not build, when ideally you would send
both the contents of config.log, and a transcript from the build, which is not
written to a file, and must be captured from the terminal.
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