1 Build and install instructions for Notmuch.
5 The process for compiling and installing Notmuch is the very standard
12 You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
13 Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
14 notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
19 Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
20 which are each described below:
24 Xapian is the search-engine library underlying Notmuch.
26 It provides all the real machinery of indexing and searching,
27 (including the very nice parsing of the query string).
29 Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
33 GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
35 Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
36 the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
38 GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
42 Talloc is a memory-pool allocator used by Notmuch.
44 Talloc is an extremely lightweight and easy-to-use tool for
45 allocating memory in a hierarchical fashion and then freeing
46 it with a single call of the top-level handle. Using it has
47 made development of Notmuch much easier and much less prone to
50 Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
52 On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
53 install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
56 sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
58 On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
59 the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of