Building

To build Virtaal yourself, you will need a packaged archive of the Virtaal source code, or obtain it directly from Git.

To get the source code direction from Git use this command:

git clone git@github.com:translate/virtaal.git

Required Packages

  • GTK+ runtime (for Windows download the latest bundle)
  • PyGTK
  • lxml
  • libglade and its python bindings (might be called something like pygtk2.0-libglade on your Linux distribution)
  • Translate-toolkit (if a current enough version is packaged, it might be called python-translate on your Linux distribution)
  • simplejson (might be called something like python-simplejson on your Linux distribution)
  • PyCurl (might be called something like python-curl or python-pycurl on your Linux distribution)
  • sqlite3 (only required if using Python 2.4)
  • wsgiref (only required if using Python 2.4)

Optional Packages

These are not build dependencies but usually improve the user experience.

  • psyco – provides a nice speedup
  • Enchant, pyenchant, gtkspell and pygtkspell (might be packaged as gnome-python-extras or something similar) – provides all spell checking functionality. For Windows:
    • See Gramps and PyEnchant for Windows installers
    • While gtkspell expects libenchant.dll, copy libenchant-1.dll to the alternate name (setup.py expects both while this is the case)
    • Remove the .dll files of dependencies shipped with pyenchant (iconv, glib, gmodule, intl) – they conflict with the ones coming from GTK but are picked up by setup.py for some reason
  • iso-codes – if you want translated language names
  • libproxy and its Python binding, which might be called something like python-libproxy on your system – improved support for proxies on Linux (since Virtaal 1.0)
  • The optional fts3 module for sqlite3 will be used if it is available - provides speedups with TM retrieval (it is safe to just overwrite a better sqlite library over the one available in Python for Windows)
  • libtranslate – used by Machine Translation plugin
  • psycopg2 – for TinyTM plugin
  • python-Levenshtein – speeds up Levenshtein distance measures, if not present we’ll use a pure Python version.

UNIX

You should be able to run Virtaal from the source tree. If you would like to install Virtaal, you can build it using

./setup.py build

and then you can install it with

sudo ./setup.py install

Distribution Packagers

For users running from a tarball, we do some dependency checking when starting Virtaal to be able to give accurate error messages in case of missing dependencies. However, if you have all of these sorted out in your package dependencies, there is no need for Virtaal to do this any more. In the file bin/virtaal, uncomment the line

#packaged = True

by removing the hash sign. This way Virtaal can start a bit quicker with no loss of functionality.

Windows

Note

For the translate-toolkit, be sure to get the Python library – the one marked win32.exe – and not the stand-alone Windows installer, which is labelled setup.exe. You might need to create this yourself with

python setup.py bdist_wininst

or just ensure that the Translate Toolkit is in your PYTHONPATH.

If you would like to build a stand-alone Windows installer, you will also need to get:

OSX

This is just some notes – it is incomplete and might be entirely off the mark. Virtaal and all dependencies run on OSX, but we still need help to document the simplest process, and to build installable packages.

This was tried so far on Mac OSX Tiger (10.5):

Install the “inst” directory from this disk image somewhere: http://www.immunityinc.com/downloads/CANVAS_OSX_SUPPORT.dmg

This GTK+ port does not need X11.

add inst/lib/python2.5/site-packages to PYTHONPATH

run python bin/virtaal

If you want, get the OS X Leopard theme: http://kims-area.com/?q=node/4 Install it into inst/share/themes/ and add an environment variable:

export GTK2_RC_FILES=inst/share/themes/OS\ X\ Leopard/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
_images/virtaal-osx.png

Older

Older attempt, no success yet using this way:

Install the Gtk+ Mac OSX framework: https://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php Install pygtk and pygobject from the GNOME FTP mirrors: ftp://ftp.gnome.org./pub/GNOME/sources/ (extract, still need to get pygobject installed)