Installation

This page describes some details of the installation process and gives hints for trouble shooting.

Platforms

The program runs under various platforms including Windows, MacOC (Intel and Silicon), Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch) and BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD).

UNIX-like Systems

The distribution is based on automake, so the traditional configure/make should be sufficient on most systems.

Prerequisites

You need wxWidgets including the headers. Version 3.0 is required. Legacy version 2.8 works until release 8.0, later versions require wx3.

Example list for wx 3.0 installation on Ubuntu 20 is

  • libwxbase3.0-0
  • libwxbase3.0-dev
  • libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0
  • libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev _ wx3.0-headers
  • wx3.0-i18n
  • libfontconfig1-dev

The following command can be pasted to the console:

sudo apt-get install libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0 libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev wx3.0-headers wx3.0-i18n libfontconfig1-dev

Other platforms have only 2 or 3 such packages. On Redhat/Fedora the wx packages are called wxGTK and wxGTK-dev.

We recommend Unicode packages if your platform provides Ansi and Unicode versions of the software. If not mentioned, Unicode will most likely be the default.

You can also compile wx from source code, see the wxWidgets Site.

Additional dependencies are

  • Required: a C/C++ compiler, GNU compiler including g++ (C++ extension) wil be the default on most systems. clang compiler should work as well.
  • Development headers of fontconfig package
  • flex and byacc for compilation of Lex and Yacc sources (only required after make clean or for experts).
  • aclocal, automake and autoconf (only if you want to dive deeper into the compilation details).

Configure

Default installation directory ("prefix") is according to GNU conventions under /usr/local. Data directory would bei /usr/share/maitreya8, the binaries would be located at /usr/local/bin.

If you want to change this, type

./configure --prefix=<directory>

where 'directory' could be something like '/usr' or '/opt'.

If the configure script complains about a wrong automake version you can run the autogen.sh script to create the automake stuff from scratch. Automake and aclocal must be installed in that case.

The wx-config script is essential for the platform dependent compiler switches. configure must find it, otherwise the program will not compile. wx-config is searched in various standard directories. If configure doesn't find your wx-config, start configure with the option

--with-wx-config=<name>

The resulting executable (src/gui/maitreya8.bin) will be quite big. You can strip if you don't want debugging informations (strip src/gui/maitreya8.bin).

The font "Saravali.ttf" from the directory "src/fonts" must be installed on your system.

This is done automatically by 'make install' and can be done manually as follows

  • install the font with your system's configuration tools
  • copy the font to the default True Type font directory (e.g. /usr/share/fonts/truetype).

Debian Linux and Derivatives

On Debian and derivates (Ubuntu, Mint etc.) there are packages for Swiss Ephemeris available.

The binaries and headers are available in the packages libswe0 resp. libswe-dev.

The packages can be used for compilation of Maitreya.

export LIBSWE_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include  
export LIBSWE_LIBS="-lswe"  
./configure --with-swe=system

Data files for the swiss ephemeris are available in the packages

  • swe-standard-data
  • swe-extra-data

The data files will be installed under /usr/share/ephe. Maitreya will recognize the data files on startup and set the path to the directory automatically.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux can build from AUR.

Free BSD

wxGTK must be installed. It can be found in the section x11-toolkits. Unicode version of wxgtk 3.0 is recommended.

The script wx-config is named wxgtk2u-3.0-config. The configure command looks like

./configure --with-wx-config=wxgtk2u-3.0-config

If configure complains about missing fontconfig installation you can set these environment variables and call configure again. See note below (C shell syntax, use export command for bash or ksh).

setenv FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS "-I/usr/include"  
setenv FONTCONFIG_LIBS "-lfontconfig"  
./configure --with-wx-config=wxgtk2u-3.0-config  
make

If font installation with make install does not work you can install it manually instead: copy the font Saravali.ttf from the source directory src/fonts to /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and restart the application.

Windows Systems

Visual Studio is not supported any more.

MinGW

The compilation with MinGW is a bit more complicated.

First step: install MinGW. This is straight forward. Read the corresponding MingGW documentation.

Second step: Installation of wxWidgets

Get the source code for wxWidgets from wxWidgets.org. You can fetch either the windows packages (like wx-msw) or the wxAll package. Unpack the source code. Documentation is under doc/msw.

Go to the the root directory of the wxWidgets source code distribution.

Type

./configure --disable-shared --enable-unicode  
make  
make install

You can also leave the option --disable-shared. You will then get a shared library of wxWidgets. The release will be bigger then.

If everything goes well, you'll have a ready-to-use wxWidgets installation.

You can test your installation by compiling one of the samples (e.g. sample minimal). Just go to the directory, type

make

and start the example.

Third step: Installation of Maitreya

Create a directory for the source code tree, e.g. c:maitreya. Enter this directory.

Unpack the source code archive

unzip maitreya-<version>.zip (zip file)  
or  
tar jxvf maitreya-<version>.tar.bz2 (bzip2 file)  
etc.

Type

make -f Makefile.win

Hope that everything's going well.

The executable (src/gui/maitreya8.exe) will be quite big. You can strip if you don't want debugging informations (strip src/gui/maitreya8.exe).

Command Line Interface

You can also build the command line interface, called 'textclient.exe' for historical reasons.

cd src/jyotish  
make -f Makefile.win textclient.exe

Note

You need the MinGW DLL to start the program. So you can either start the program from the MinGW shell or you provide the files (one or more mingw*.dll) on the path.

These files are located in the msys or mingw directory. You can e.g. copy them to the place where the executable is located. Probably you can also copy them to the windows directory, try it.

Compilation on Mac OS X

The program compiles and runs on Mac OS X Yosemite or later. GNU gcc and g++ are required (install xcode command line tools)

The following steps work on Mac OS X Yosemite with wxWidgets-3.0.3: download wxWidgets source package, unpack it. Create folder for build, change to folder and call configure and make

../configure --disable-shared --with-macosx-version-min=10.6  
make

Unpack the maitreya release and call configure and make.

export CC="gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.6"  
export CXX="g++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.6"  
./configure --with-wx-config=[path-to-wx-build]/wx-config  
make

Calling the script "create_mac_release.sh" will create the release directory and application folder "Maitreya8.app" with required data. It can be started with the "open" command or with mouse click from the Finder.

Create the disk image with

create_mac_release.sh dmg