Compiling Enlightenment 17 from source

These are the steps I took to compile Enlightenment 17 from source on a Fedora Core 4 installation. There are also notes on compiling it for Fedora 8 (x86_64).

The official build notes seem to be incomplete (and are now gone - broken link ..).

• get the latest source from the snapshots page. The ones I got were from 2007-07-10. The tarballs to get are:
  • imlib2         (image file library)
  • eet         (compressed file I/O)
  • evas         (display canvas API)
  • ecore (note: missing from 2007-07-10, get it from 2007-06-17 instead)         (event/X abstraction layer)
  • epeg         (jpeg thumbnailer)
  • embryo         (virtual machine)
  • edje         (graphical layout & animation library)
  • epsilon         (thumbnailing library)
  • esmart         ("evas smart objects")
  • efreet         (specifications from freedesktop.org)
  • ewl         (widget library)
  • enlightenment
  This is also the build order (note it is different from the order specified in the build notes, which doesn't work)
• setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
• decompress, compile, and install each package. For example, for imlib2:
  tar zxvf imib2-1.4.0.002.tar.gz
  cd imlib2-1.4.0.002
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  If you prefer to create RPMs instead, use checkinstall instead of the last "make install" step.
• note: for ecore add an option to configure:
  ./configure --enable-ecore-fb
• note: for esmart, set CFLAGS before running configure:
  setenv CFLAGS "-I /usr/share/libtool/libltdl"
  (you may have to download and install libtool first)
• if you're creating RPMs, and you have earlier versions of these packages already installed, run rpm as follows:
  rpm -Uvh <rpm filename>
  If installing from scratch, run:
  rpm -ivh <rpm filename>
• if you had an earlier version of enlightenment installed, edit your ~/.gnome2/session file, and replace in the lines that say CloneCommand=enlightenment, RestartCommand=enlightenment the command enlightenment with enlightenment_start

These steps should do it. It'll get you a version of enlightenment that works much better than the older FC4 RPMs that are available. Here are some very nice Enlightenment 17 themes. Put the theme files in the directory ~/.e/e/themes.