New subject: Haiti trip - looking for help getting Kiwix working on OLPC XO-1.5

26 Mar 2018

Hi -

I am working on compiling kiwix-tools, and therefore kiwix-lib for the
XO-1.5 (fedora 18), in preparation for the trip to Haiti in April.

I am following the instructions here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools
and here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-lib

With Jerry, Nathan, and Adam's help, I was able to install all dependencies
for kiwix-lib (icu, zim, pugixml, ctpp2 [had to compile from source],
xapian) and
the environment compilation tools (automake, libtool, pkg-config).

But I am having trouble with *meson*. Meson requires python 3.5+ so we
installed python 3.6 from source (via
https://danieleriksson.net/2017/02/08/how-to-install-latest-python-on-cento…
).
Meson (finally) was successfully installed that way, but now am running
into the following error when running "meson . build" as instructed to do
so here:
https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-lib.
*Error during basic setup: Neither directory contains a build file
meson.build*
Based on searching the web, it seems like this command requires the source
existing thought it seems per here:
https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/158
that it may not be the preferred route anymore. The solution in that issue
was to run this command:

*sudo -u kiwix /bin/bash -c "cd /opt/kiwix; /usr/lib/kiwix/bin/kiwix-manage
/opt/kiwix/data/library/library.xml add
/media/esata/MEDIA/System/Kiwix/data/content/wikipedia_en_for-schools_2013-01.zim"
*
Would appreciate any guidance on how to proceed. Many thanks.

Avni

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Adam Holt &lt;holt(a)unleashkids.org&gt; wrote:

...
  On Mar 6, 2018 6:26 PM, "Avni Khatri"
&lt;avni(a)kidsoncomputers.org&gt; wrote:

 Hi all -

 As part of the Haiti trip, we are looking for help getting Kiwix
 (kiwis-tools)

 kiwix-tools (enables fully searchable offline Wikipedia, across
 disconnected lands).

 This is necessary to display the new ZIM files (these contain full-text
 search indexes, since about a year ago, consequently the old Kiwix on i686
 no longer works!)

  compiled and working on OLPC XO-1.5
 <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification_1.5>.

 We believe this should be straightforward as it *was* running on i686 just
 over a year ago at the end of 2016: https://github.com/kiwix
 /kiwix-build/issues/94

 Steps are outlined at the bottom of: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools and
 we think it's a matter of knowing which compiler flags to use.

 Support by Emmanuel & the Kiwix team will be available via IRC channel
 #kiwix at http://webchat.freenode.net for questions. Adam (cc'ed) can
 also provide additional technical details as necessary.

 We need this so kids in the two schools we are visiting can view the
 Wikipedia we all love so much offline and has the impact to help any kid
 (or anybody!) using 32-bit Linux PC's.

 If an actual XO-1.5 laptop (about 3X faster than the original One Laptop
 Per Child laptop, and a more standard i686 architecture) is needed to
 compile kiwix-tools please let us know.

 "It should be almost trivial IMO to get the binary for the VIA C7... The
 original ticket dealing with removal of SSE instruction was:

 https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/bugs/478/

 The original fix was in:
 kiwix/kiwix-xulrunner@4e6bd8d

<https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-xulrunner/commit/4e6bd8d806eda6b1b4959259dc30a157533e2cb2>

 I recommend to build straight forward i686 and i585 without the SSE(2)
 instruction set, which means with the GCC option -mno-sse"
 https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build/issues/94#issuecomment-347178452

 Please let Adam and I know if you can help. Many thanks for considering.

 Avni Khatri
 Kids on Computers, Inc.
 http://kidsoncomputers.org/blog

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