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In general, fcitx and its component largely uses cmake as its build system, and create many of macro with cmake to help build.

This section means, it's the most common dependency among all Fcitx related package, though some of them might not depend on these.

All compile option start with -D, following only include option name.

All ENABLE option is boolean value, can be set with On or Off. For default value, please check CMakeLists.txt.

ENABLE_GTK2_IM_MODULE
ENABLE_GTK3_IM_MODULE
ENABLE_QT_IM_MODULE
ENABLE_CAIRO
ENABLE_PANGO
ENABLE_DBUS
ENABLE_DEBUG
ENABLE_TABLE
ENABLE_OPENCC
ENABLE_STATIC
ENABLE_TEST
ENABLE_SNOOPER
NO_SNOOPER_APPS (Comma separated regex string)
LIB_INSTALL_DIR (By default is prefix/lib, useful when want to install under /usr/lib64 or other directory)

All cmake based Fcitx component can be compiled in following way.

   cd /path/to/source
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. [CMake options]
   make
   sudo make install

For Other Fcitx component, you'd better use

   cd /path/to/source
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`fcitx4-config --prefix`
   make
   sudo make install

It's not recommend to use non standard path, but if you have special need, you need following environment variable to make things work.

Say you install Fcitx at /opt/fcitx, and the library directory is /opt/fcitx/lib, then you need following environment variable.

   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/fcitx/lib/pkgconfig
   export PATH=$PATH:/opt/fcitx/bin
   export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/fcitx

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 In general, fcitx and its component largely uses cmake as its build system, and create many of macro with cmake to help build.
-== Fcitx Dependency ==
+== General Dependency ==
+This section means, it's the most common dependency among all Fcitx related package, though some of them might not depend on these.
 * C compiler  (both [[wikipedia:GNU_Compiler_Collection|GCC]] and [[wikipedia:Clang|Clang]] are tested)
 * C++ compiler (both [[wikipedia:G++|G++]] and [[wikipedia:Clang++|CLang++]])
+* cmake
+* intltool
+=== Dependency of Fcitx ===
 * gtk2 (gtk2 input method module)
 * gtk3 (gtk2 input method module)
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 * dbus-glib (gtk im module)
 * [http://code.google.com/p/opencc opencc] (Better Simp-Trad Chinese Conversion for [[Special:myLanguage/Chttrans|Chttrans]])
-* intltool
 == Compile Option ==