If you are just curious about using Gitso, there is no need to build it from Source. Please see the Downloads Page.

If you're interested in digging around in the code or submitting a patch, I'd recommend grabbing a snapshot from SVN. Patches are definitely welcome! However, if you want to create a specialized build for yourself, I'd recomment download the latest stable version of the source.

Instructions:

• Mac OS X
• Windows
• Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE)

How it Works

Using Python and wxWidgets, Gitso utilizes other applications for the actual VNC work:

• Getting support relies on x11vnc -connect (varies per platform).
• Giving support relies on vncviewer -listen (varies per platform).

Command line options

There are a number of command line switches that Gitso supports.

• --dev This should be used when calling gitso from the source. This enables the code to look in the appropriate place for various assets.
• --listen Gitso will start and automatically listen for connections (AKA give support)..
• --connect IP Gitso will start and automatically try to connect to the IP address.
• --list list_file Gitso will look to this external list, can be local or via HTTP for the hosts lists. Ex: You could add a list to your web server so every time the user connected with this option, they would get an up-to-date support list from your server.
• list_file Should be something like http://www.myserver.com/path/to/support_ips.txt
• support_ips.txt Should be a comma separated list of IP's. These will then show up in the menu of support IP addresses in Gitso.
• --version Show the current release of Gitso.
• --help Show these options.