FoxtrotGPS

Notes on FoxtrotGPS, the usual Wildsong page -- I write until I have a basic understanding, then leave you hanging.

The bits and bobs

FoxtrotGPS builds on a rich foundation of open source components.

Building on Ubuntu 10.04

Prequisites

Taken straight from the source

• pkg-config <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>
• GLib 2.x <http://www.gtk.org/>
• GTK+ 2.x <http://www.gtk.org/>
• libglade 2.x <http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.6/>
• GConf 2.x <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/>
• libcurl <http://curl.haxx.se/>
• SQLite 3 <http://www.sqlite.org/>
• libexif <http://libexif.sourceforge.net/>
• libxml2 <http://xmlsoft.org/>
• libgps >= 2.90 <http://gpsd.berlios.de/>

What I had to install

Starting with a machine that's been used to compile and build projects, I still had to install some stuff.

I downloaded and built curl and gpsd from source, Ubuntu version is outdated.

sudo apt-get install libgconf2-dev libglade2-dev curl sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
  libxml2-dev libexif-dev libcurl3
sudo apt-get install bzr
sudo apt-get install autoconf intltool libtool

bzr branch  http://www.foxtrotgps.org/branches/foxtrotgps-dev/

cd foxtrotgps-dev/
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
foxtrotgps

It runs!