Compiling

Updated Oct 19, 2009 by ja...@87k.net

Compiling

How to compile and install VMware View Open Client from source.

These instructions were tested on Ubuntu 8.10 on i386.

Ingredients

For this you will need:

a suitable development environment (I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 so I grabbed the build-essentials meta-package)
the source tarball
compile-time dependencies:

gtk+-x11-2.0 >= 2.4.0 (libgtk2.0-dev in Ubuntu 8.10)
libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.0 (libxml2-dev in Ubuntu 8.10)
libcurl >= 7.16.0 (libcurl4-openssl-dev in Ubuntu 8.10)
libssl >= 0.9.8, libcrypto >= 0.9.8 (libssl-dev in Ubuntu 8.10)
boostlib >= 1.34.1 (libboost-dev in Ubuntu 8.10)

Open Issues

Before building the client, please check the list of open issues for patches you may need to build on your platform.

VMware View Open Client uses GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake. For details on how to build software using these tools, see the included INSTALL file.

A few simple commands should be all you need to need to get started:

$ tar zxf VMware-view-open-client-source-*.tar.gz
$ cd VMware-view-open-client-source-*
$ ./configure && make

You can then start the client by running:

$ ./vmware-view

To install the client, just run make install:

$ sudo make install

This will install binaries in /usr/bin and documentation in /usr/share/doc/VMware-view-open-client/.

Comment by peter.sylvester, Feb 04, 2009

It seems to me that the fix to libcurl pb is to remove the NULL parameter in lib/bora/basichttp.c in line 1391

Comment by migrantdataworker, Feb 06, 2009

worked for me! Thanks Peter!

Comment by ebussink, Mar 12, 2009

To compile the source VMware View Open Client 2.1.1 (Build 153227) on Fedora 10 (x86-64) I had to add the --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib64 to the ./configure

The client works great !!! Thanks a lot.

Comment by 84fernando, May 02, 2009

Thanks, finally I can do my work from Gentoo.

Comment by Nathan.Sink, Jun 08, 2009

To get this to work on Ubuntu 8.04 you have to compile intltool >=0.21 from source. I just took the source intltool from intrepid https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/intltool/0.40.5-0ubuntu1 and compiled it after installing the listed compile-time dependencies. Hope this helps every one else sticking with the LTS.

Comment by rod.dickerson, Dec 16, 2009

The following worked for me on OSX 10.6. I may already have some of the other dependencies installed, so ymmv. This is assuming you have Macports installed.

sudo port -d selfupdate
sudo port install curl intltool boost icu

CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" LIBS="-L/opt/local/lib" ./configure
make
sudo make install

copy the VMware View Open Client app from the build directory into your applications folder