Full build instructions as copied/pasted from my bug report – note that this will enable you to build Scribus, but opening/saving Scribus project files is broken. If anyone has a workaround for this let me know…and hopefully the Scribus developers will have a fix soon.

EDIT: Saving files does work (there is a bug report here), given the following workaround. It seems Cmake ignores the install directory specified by -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/scribusinstall. If you copy the contents of sfw_stage to ~/scribusinstall, saving .sla files apparently then works fine. See below for these commands, options, and directories in context.

Also be warned that this whole process can take a while – building Qt for example on an Intel Q8200 quad-core system took about a couple of hours.

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BUILDING AND INSTALLING SCRIBUS 1.3.6.svn ON OPENSOLARIS DEVELOPMENT BUILD 134 X64
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Saturday 13th March 2010

=> INSTALL OPENSOLARIS X64

Download osol-dev-134-x86.iso from http://www.genunix.org/

Test case system is an Intel Q8200 (Gigabyte EG31MF-S2 system board) with 4GB RAM.

=> INSTALL PREREQUISITE PACKAGES

Use the OpenSolaris IPS package manager GUI to install the following:

versioning/subversion
gcc-3
cmake
gettext
header-xorg

= BUILD AND INSTALL QT 4.6.2 FROM SOURCE

Download qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.tar.gz from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

Copy and unpack the file to /tmp

In /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2/ run the following:

$ ./configure -platform solaris-g++ -no-webkit
$ gmake
$ pfexec gmake install

This installs Qt at the default location of /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.2

(Note: if you encounter mmap errors when building, increase the swap space following the instructions at http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/2649)

Add the following to your ~/.profile (assuming ksh or bash)

QTDIR=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.2; export QTDIR

=> BUILD AND INSTALL SCRIBUS

$ mkdir ~/scribusinstall
$ mkdir ~/scribussource
$ cd ~/scribussource
$ svn co svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135
$ cd Version135/Scribus
$ mkdir builddir
$ cd builddir
$ /usr/bin/cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/scribusinstall
$ make
$ pfexec make install

Scribus binary is installed to ~/scribussource/Version135/Scribus/builddir/sfw_stage/bin. See the edit at the top of this page to complete the installation.

(EDIT: looks like I’m unable to open nor save .SLA files with this – which is not particularly useful. Stay tuned…)

(EDIT #2: see here for the workaround)

This has taken me an age to complete, but I’ve had success in the last hour.

My bug report is here. In summary, on Ubuntu Linux (for example) the latest development builds of Scribus have no problems with the Qt packages available from the (Synaptic) default repositories. On OpenSolaris however, this doesn’t seem to be the case with Qt packages available at http://solaris.bionicmutton.org, as I’ve discovered after many hours fruitless tinkering.

I’ve found that I can build Scribus 1.3.6.svn successfully, using Qt 4.6.2 as built from source. Thankfully this is a pretty straightforward (albeit long) process.

Details covering package prerequisites etc are now here.