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If you want to build Glow from source, please read these instructions.

Most users will not need to build from source. If you just want to use Glow without modifying it, head over to the Download section instead.

Dependencies

Source code

For more details on how to get the Glow source code, please see the full documentation on doing this.

For the purposes of this guide, we recommend you put the source code in a directory called "projects".

You can actually put it wherever you want, just remember to substitute "projects" for the name of the directory you chose if we mention it later.

$ cd ~
$ mkdir projects
$ cd projects
$ git clone git://github.com/glow/glow1.git

Ant

Glow is built using , so you'll need to install that before going any further.

If you are on a Linux based system this should be as easy as running the following command, or similair depending on your distribution's package manager.

sudo apt-get install ant

Mac OSX users may want to install (which includes Ant), or get it using .

For Windows users we recommend ; a Windows installer for Apache Ant.

YUI Compressor

Glow uses the excellent to optimise the file size of the built files.

Download the of YUI Compressor, and extract it into the same "projects" directory that contains the checked out Glow source code.

Building

Once you have Ant and the YUI Compressor installed, building Glow is quite simple.

Open a shell prompt in the root of the Glow source directory and run Ant:

$ cd ~/projects/glow1
$ ant

If everything goes well, this will create a new directory called "dist" that contains the built files, and two archive files of this directory with the extensions zip and tgz.

If Ant cannot find YUI Compressor, it will fail with a message stating the location it expected it to be at. To correct this, check the YUI_JAR file path listed in the file build.properties and modify it if necessary.