From e06bdb6baaaee6f14c8ce390b3ba7cb5968db7e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:36:36 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] minor spelling fix in Windows section add small FreeBSD section --- docs/building.rst | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/building.rst b/docs/building.rst index 53ea71e..7509f8f 100644 --- a/docs/building.rst +++ b/docs/building.rst @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ recommended way of building Overviewer on 64-bit Windows using free tools. If y have bought a copy of Visual Studio, you can use it for 64-bit builds. -Prerequisits -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Prerequisites +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will need a copy of the `PIL sources `_. @@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ The following script (copied into your MCO source directory) should handle every # build MCO C_INCLUDE_PATH="`pwd`/Imaging-1.1.7/libImaging" python ./setup.py build +FreeBSD +------- +FreeBSD is similar to OSX and Linux, but ensure you're using Python 2.7. The port of Python 2.6 has bugs with threading under FreeBSD. +Everything else you should need is ported, in particular math/py-numpy and graphics/py-imaging. + +You may need or want to add the line:: + + PYTHON_VERSION=2.7 + +to the file /etc/make.conf, but read the ports documentation to be sure of what this might do to other Python applications on your system. + .. _centos: CentOS