From 5f5c015b822a95cc7bc8a13f93e0365ae66e3c5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Reece H. Dunn" Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:49:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: updated the build notes w.r.t. the change to autotools --- README | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 2a7faaff..8b18694f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Changes to eSpeak to support building on a POSIX system by running make. +Changes to eSpeak to support building on a POSIX system by using autotools. This does the following things: 1/ compile the libespeak library; @@ -6,16 +6,26 @@ This does the following things: 3/ compile the espeakedit application; 4/ compile the voice data, creating an espeak-data directory. -This allows you to run: - - make && sudo make install - -and end up with a working espeak application. - This branch also contains some bug fixes and improvements that get sent back upstream. +BUILDING + + +The espeak and espeakedit programs, along with the espeak voices, can +be built via the standard autotools commands: + + $ ./autogen.sh + $ ./configure + $ make + $ sudo make install + +NOTE: The configure command detects various platform differences that +the espeak makefiles don't cater for (e.g. different wxWidgets version) +and detect the available audio setup to use automatically. + + HISTORICAL RELEASES