PAPPL requires Microsoft® Windows® 10 or higher or a POSIX-compliant host
operating system such as Linux®, macOS®, QNX®, or VxWorks®. On Windows, the
provided project files require Visual Studio 2019 or higher. For POSIX hosts,
a "make" utility that supports the include
directive (like GNU make), a
C99-compatible C compiler such as GCC or Clang, and the "pkg-config" utility
are required along with the following support libraries:
- Avahi (0.8 or later) or mDNSResponder for mDNS/DNS-SD support
- CUPS (2.2 or later) or libcups (3.0 or later) for the CUPS libraries
- GNU TLS (3.0 or later), LibreSSL (3.0 or later), or OpenSSL (1.1 or later) for TLS support
- JPEGLIB (8 or later) or libjpeg-turbo (2.0 or later) for JPEG image support (optional for B&W printers)
- LIBPNG (1.6 or later) for PNG image support (optional)
- LIBPAM for authentication support (optional)
- LIBUSB (1.0 or later) for USB printing support (optional)
- PAM for authentication support (optional)
- ZLIB (1.1 or later) for compression support
CentOS 8/Fedora 23+/RHEL 8:
sudo dnf groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo dnf install avahi-devel cups-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel \
libpng-devel libssl-devel libusbx-devel pam-devel zlib-devel
Debian/Raspbian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libavahi-client-dev libcups2-dev \
libcupsimage2-dev libjpeg-dev libpam-dev libpng-dev libssl-dev \
libusb-1.0-0-dev zlib1g-dev
macOS (after installing Xcode from the AppStore):
(install brew if necessary from <https://brew.sh>)
brew install libjpeg
brew install libpng
brew install libusb
brew install openssl@3
or download, build, and install libjpeg, libpng, libusb, and OpenSSL or LibreSSL from source.
Windows (after installing Visual Studio 2019 or later) will automatically install the prerequisites via NuGet packages.
PAPPL uses the usual configure
script to generate a make
file:
./configure [options]
make
Use ./configure --help
to see a full list of options.
There is also an Xcode project under the xcode
directory that can be used on
macOS:
open xcode/pappl.xcodeproj
and a Visual Studio solution under the vcnet
directory that must be used on
Windows.
You can test the build by running the PAPPL test program:
testsuite/testpappl
Once you have successfully built PAPPL, install it using:
sudo make install
By default everything will be installed under /usr/local
. Use the --prefix
configure option to override the base installation directory. Set the
DESTDIR
, DSTROOT
, or RPM_BUILD_ROOT
environment variables to redirect the
installation to a staging area, as is typically done for most software packaging
systems (using one of those environment variables...)