Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book suite from

the Evolution Team.

See https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution for more information.

If you are using Evolution, you may wish to subscribe to the Evolution

users mailing list.  If you are interested in contributing to

development on it, you should certainly subscribe to the Evolution

Hackers mailing list.  Visit

        https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

to subscribe or view archives of the Evolution mailing lists.

If you are planning to work on any part of Evolution, please send mail

to the mailing list first, to avoid duplicated effort (and to make

sure that you aren't basing your work on interfaces that are expected

to change).

There is also a #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org.

Help for Evolution is available in the user manual (select "Help" from

the menu after running the application), at the GNOME users help site

(https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/), and in the --help strings

(run "evolution --help" at the command line).

The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution.

DEPENDENCIES

------------

In order to build Evolution you need to have the full set of GNOME 3

(or greater) development libraries installed.

GNOME 3 or greater comes with most of the modern distributions, so

in most cases it should be enough to just install all the devel

packages from your distribution.

Please make sure you have the most recent versions of the libraries

installed, since bugs in the libraries can cause bugs in Evolution.

Additional dependencies, besides the stock GNOME libraries (the

dependencies should be compiled in the order they are listed here):

        * evolution-data-server of the same version as the Evolution is

             ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server

        * libsoup 2.42 or later

             ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup

        * WebKitGTK+ 2.13.0

             http://webkitgtk.org/releases/

        * Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries

          These are needed if you want to compile Evolution with SSL and S/MIME

          support.

             http://www.mozilla.org/

          Many distributions ship these as Mozilla development

          packages.

Other dependencies are claimed during the configure phase. If these are

optional, also a parameter for the CMake configure to not use that dependency

is shown.

CONFIGURING EVOLUTION

---------------------

First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and

its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME

install, or into a new prefix.

Installing everything into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME

install will make it much easier to build and run programs, and easier

to switch between using packages and building it yourself, but it may

also make it harder to uninstall later.  Also, it increases the chance

that something goes wrong and your GNOME installation gets ruined.

If you want to install in a different prefix, you need to do the

following things:

        * Set the environment variables to contain a colon-separated list

          of all the directories that will be involved in the build.

          The environment variables are ACLOCAL_FLAGS, GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR,

          LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

          For example, if you have GNOME installed in /usr and you

          are installing Evolution and its dependencies in

          /opt/evolution, you want to do something like the following

          (assuming you are using Bash):

                export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/evolution/share/aclocal"

                export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="/opt/evolution/share/glib-2.0/schemas"

                export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

                export PATH=/opt/evolution/bin:$PATH

                export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

        * Edit the D-Bus session-local.conf file (which is normally

          search for by D-Bus in /etc/dbus-1/) to include the

          location where you are installing Evolution.

          In the example given above (GNOME in /usr, Evolution and

          dependencies in /opt/evolution), your

          session-local.conf will have to look like this:

                 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"

                 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">

                <busconfig>

                  <servicedir>/opt/evolution/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>

                </busconfig>

        * Pass an appropriate CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX parameter to the configure

          scripts of Evolution and its dependencies, eg:

                cd ..../sources/evolution

                mkdir build

                cd build

                cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" \

                      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/evolution \

                      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \

                      ..

        * Run `cmake --help` to get list of available generators (the -G argument)

          on your platform.

OPTIONAL FEATURES

-----------------

Some optional features can be enabled at compilation time by passing

appropriate flags to the CMake. These options are shown at the end

of the successful configure phase.

BUILDING EVOLUTION

------------------

After the Evolution is properly configured, run:

                make -j

                make -j install

to build it.