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# Compiling Toucan

Toucan has a number of prerequisites before it can be compiled which are given in the table below. You will also need a copy of the Toucan source code, which is available form the Mercurial repository.

Name | Min. Version | Homepage
--- | --- | ---
wxWidgets | 2.9.0 | http://wxwidgets.org
CMake | 2.6 | http://cmake.org
cxxtest | 3.10.1 | http://cxxtest.tigris.org/
Lua | 5.1 | http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/
SWIG | 1.3.40 | http://swig.org/
Windows SDK | Windows 7 | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsserver/bb980924.aspx

Firstly you need to compile wxWidgets, the following libraries are required:

- base
- core
- net
- aui
- stc.

Guides for compiling wxWidgets are availiable on the wxWiki. Nothing else needs to be compiled but you do need to replace the FindwxWidgets.cmake file that comes with CMake with the one that lives in the Toucan repository. The correct location is `C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\share\cmake-2.8\Modules` under Windows and `/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules` in Linux.

The next step is to run CMake and to select the folder that contains the source code and the folder that you would like to build files to be put in. Next click the configure button and select the type of copmiler you are going to use. CMake will then try to configure things as best as possible. You need to keep checking and filling in red fields correctly and clicking configure until there are no more red fields. The you should be able to press the generate button to create your build files which you can then use to build Toucan with no more configuration.

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