Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Compiling MLDonkey for Linux

MLDonkey is a multi-protocol P2P file-sharing program for Windows, Mac and Linux. Unlike eMule, MLDonkey supports Bittorrent, FastTrack and DirectConnect networks, too. Compiling MLDonkey requires OCaml compiler toolchain. First, download and install the following Ocaml stuff. These are names of required Debian packages:


ocaml-native-compilers

camlp4

ocaml-nox


Then, install these libraries:


zlib1g-dev

libbz-dev

libgd2-xpm-dev

libmagic-dev


Now, you are ready to compile MLDonkey. Change directory to the MLDonkey source tree and type these commands:


./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu

make release.mlnet.static

You'll get a tarball, for example, mldonkey-3.0.0.static.i586-Linux_glibc-2.7.tar.bz2. Keep it at a safe place. Now, extract the tarball to a directory, for example, /opt. In the extracted folder, you'll find an executable, mlnet. This is just a command-line program, so you need a GUI frontend, such as Sancho.


Sancho GUI

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