h2. Install Boost and libidn

You have to have boost-devel and libidn-devel installed before compiling Swiften, otherwise it will compile against bundled version of Boost and libidn and Spectrum compilation will fail.

h2. Install Swiften from git repository:

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git clone git://swift.im/swift

cd swift

./scons V=1 swiften_dll=1 Swiften SWIFTEN_INSTALLDIR=/usr/local force-configure=1

sudo ./scons V=1 swiften_dll=1 Swiften SWIFTEN_INSTALLDIR=/usr/local /usr/local

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*Note* - If the output of "./scons" command contains following during the configure stage, you don't have boost-devel or libidn-devel installed during the compilation and *Swiften won't work properly*:

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Checking for C++ header file boost/signals.hpp... no

....

Checking for C library idn... no

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The proper configure script output looks like this: