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Build the calibre installers, including all dependencies from scratch

This folder contains code to automate the process of building calibre, including all its dependencies, from scratch, for all platforms that calibre supports.

In general builds proceed in two steps, first build all the dependencies, then build the calibre installer itself.

Requirements

Building must run on a Linux computer.

First create some empty top level directory and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/kovidgoyal/bypy.git
git clone https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre.git
cd calibre
./setup.py bootstrap

To make the Windows and macOS builds it uses VirtualBox VMs. Instructions on creating the VMs are in their respective sections below.

Linux

To build the 64bit and 32bit dependencies for calibre, run:

./setup.py build_dep linux
./setup.py build_dep linux 32

The output (after a very long time) will be in bypy/b/linux/[32|64]

Now you can build the calibre Linux tarballs with:

./setup.py linux

The output will be in dist

macOS

You need a VirtualBox virtual machine of macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Name the VM using vm_name from bypy/macos.conf. To setup macOS inside the VM, follow the steps:

  • Turn on Remote Login under Network (SSHD)
  • Create a user account named kovid and enable password-less login for SSH for that account (setup ~/.ssh/authorized_keys)
  • Setup ssh into the VM from the host using the vm_name from above.
  • Install the needed software mentioned in bypy/macos.conf.

To build the dependencies for calibre, run:

./setup.py build_dep macos

The output (after a very long time) will be in bypy/b/macos. Now you can build the calibre .dmg with:

./setup.py osx --dont-sign --dont-notarize

The output will be in dist

Windows

You need a VirtualBox virtual machine of Windows 7 64bit. Name the VM using vm_name from bypy/windows.conf. To setup windows inside the VM, follow the steps:

  • Install all the software mentioned in bypy/windows.conf

  • Install cygwin, with the: vim, dos2unix, rsync, openssh, unzip, wget, make, zsh, patch, bash-completion, curl packages

  • Edit /etc/passwd and replace all occurrences of /bin/bash with /bin/zsh (in a cygwin prompt)

  • Setup a password for your windows user account

  • Follow the steps here: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/auto-logon-windows-7.htm to allow the machine to bootup without having to enter the password

  • The following steps must all be run in an administrator cygwin shell, to enable SSH logins to the machine

  • First clean out any existing cygwin ssh setup with:

    net stop sshd
cygrunsrv -R sshd
net user sshd /DELETE
net user cyg_server /DELETE (delete any other cygwin users account you
can list them with net user)
rm -R /etc/ssh*
mkpasswd -cl > /etc/passwd
mkgroup --local > /etc/group

  • Assign the necessary rights to the normal user account (administrator cygwin command prompt needed - editrights is available in \cygwin\bin):

    editrights.exe -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u kovid
editrights.exe -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege -u kovid
editrights.exe -a SeTcbPrivilege -u kovid
editrights.exe -a SeServiceLogonRight -u kovid

  • Run:

    ssh-host-config
And answer (yes) to all questions. If it asks do you want to use a
different user name, specify the name of your user account and enter
username and password

  • Start sshd with:

    net start sshd

  • See http://www.kgx.net.nz/2010/03/cygwin-sshd-and-windows-7/ for details

To build the dependencies for calibre, run:

./setup.py build_dep windows
./setup.py build_dep windows 32

The output (after a very long time) will be in bypy/b/windows/[32|64]. Now you can build the calibre windows installers with:

./setup.py win --dont-sign

The output will be in dist