Developer Guide

This section of the wiki is aimed at 'developers': people that want to modify the code themselves to fix bugs or add new features. It also includes information about compiling Greenstone from source, which may be helpful for users on a non-standard operating system where the binaries don't work.

• Compiling Greenstone
  • Compiling Greenstone3:
  • Compiling Greenstone2:
  • Installing from Source on Windows:
  • Installing from Source on Linux - Greenstone3:
  • Installing from Source on Linux - Greenstone2:
  • Installing from Source on Mac:
  • SVN with Greenstone : Information about where to get Greenstone using SVN, and common commands for using your repository.
• Using Geenstone3 in Eclipse
  • Eclipse and Greenstone 3:
  • Eclipse shortcuts: Some useful shortcuts for Greenstone 3 in Eclipse
• Adding New Features to greenstone 3
  • Deploying extensions for Greenstone 3:
  • Using PHAROS:Instructions for installing the PHAROS Image/Video indexer with Greenstone3
  • Seaweed: Setting up Seaweed with Greenstone 3. Provides live editing of metadata and text through the digital library.
  • Fedora Generic Search Installation:
• Collection Building
  • Incremental Building : Some code information.
  • Plugins: Explaining plugins
  • Using MSSQL as the collection database :
  • A bit more about indexers
  • a bit about buildcol.pl and classifiers
• Page Generation
  • Creating a page: How the interface side works
• Miscellaneous Topics
  • Integrating Greenstone (2.83) and Koha
• Other Useful Info
  • Installing SVN:
  • Release Kits : The release kits enable us to create Greenstone releases. Includes installing and running the release kits.
  • On compiling a newer Apache HTTPD: Some notes on compiling up the dependencies for Apache httpd 2.4.9 as needed to compile httpd 2.4.9.
  • Useful Command line commands

• Features Under Development
  • DocumentBasket: Only partially developed. The intention is to allow picking parts of documents and putting them together to make a new one??