build instructions for zotero everywhere

matt_price

Hi,
I wonder whether anyone wants to take a moment to post build instructions for zotero everywhere? I think it should be something like:

svn co https://www.zotero.org/svn/standalone/trunk/ zotero

cd zotero

./build_sa

for me, on linux, this has been failing with the following errors (running ubuntu linux):
$ ./build_sa
Getting latest Zotero revision
Got Zotero r7239
Building translators.zip
Building styles.zip
Retrieving Zotero OpenOffice.org Integration
Building Zotero_Linux-i686
mv: cannot stat `/home/matt/src/zotero/Zotero_Linux-i686/xulrunner/xulrunner-stub': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/home/matt/src/zotero/Zotero_Linux-i686/zotero': No such file or directory
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this is presumably because xulrunner isn't included in the download; i copied the xulrunner-2.0 files from /usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0b8pre to my $APPDIR, then tried again -- got rid of the error, but trying to run
$ ./zotero

from $APPDIR just results in the application exiting.

$ ./zotero -v
gives:
Zotero Zotero 2.1.SVN.r7239, Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Contributors

but that's it. So, any hints would be appreciated! Thanks,
Matt

matt_price

should have said, I copied the xulrunner files to my $CALLDIR, not my $APPDIR.

noksagt

It is discussed a bit at:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7327/feature-request-stand-alone-zotero/
https://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_frm/thread/c3eb5fdcebced647#

The last time I made it, I used svn-r6187 of zotero and xulrunner version 1.8.1.22pre_0000000000.

I suggest inspecting the build log for errors more closely, trying to use the released version of xulrunner instead of 2.0, and/or running your build in a debugger to get a bit more info besides "results in the application exiting."

matt_price

The new wiki instructions from tom roche fixed my problems, i suspect by downloading a copy of xulrunner 2.0:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/building_the_standalone_client

thanks tom!
matt