Per Matthieu's instructions, I git cloned the kiwix-lib repo and ran "meson kiwix-lib build". See attached screenshot. It made it further now, but complains with "Native dependency 'libzim' not found"

This seems very similar to the issue here: kiwix/kiwix-lib#49 though I can't figure out how this was resolved.

I've also attached the terminal history from the last 2 days.

Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Avni Khatri

Kids on Computers, Inc.

http://kidsoncomputers.org/blog

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:01:50 +0200
From: Matthieu Gautier <mgautier@kymeria.fr>
To: offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Offline-l] Haiti trip - looking for help getting Kiwix
        working on OLPC XO-1.5
Message-ID: <123d91e3-c12f-883c-466e-94f995d1c107@kymeria.fr>
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Hi Avni,

Do you know https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build ?
It is the tool we used to compile all kiwix projects (and so kiwix-tools).
It download all sources, and compile everything from dependencies to
kiwix-tools.

Anyway, you can compile kiwix-tools without kiwix-build :

Meson need the sources of kiwix-tools to compile them. You will need to
clone them with `git clone https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-lib`
Once they are cloned, you can use them. The command is `meson
<path_to_source_directory> <path_to_build_directory>`.
So if you already are in the source directory and want to build in the
subdirectory build, the command is `meson . build`

Once the build is configured (meson is the equivalent of ./configure),
you can compile it with `ninja` (being in the build_directory)

Cheers,
Matthieu Gautier.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org> wrote:

Hi Avni

On 26.03.2018 08:05, Avni Khatri wrote:

> 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). 

Please open a ticket on Kiwix Github organisation for technical
questions https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/new.

Please provide the whole console log from the git clone (or tarball
unpack) up to the error.

Regards
Emmanuel

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