Installing Vidalia from Source

The following directions are for building and installing Vidalia from either the source tarball for the latest release from our download page or from the latest development snapshot.

Note: If you want to build and install an older version of Vidalia then 0.1.0, please refer for reading it's instructions.
InstallSource_OldVersions.

1. Linux/BSD/Unix
   1. General
   2. Mandriva 2007 (tested on x86_64 and x86_32)
   3. Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu (tested on 6.06 and 7.04)
2. Windows
3. OS X

Linux/BSD/Unix

General

1. Make sure you have Qt 4.1 or later and Tor 0.1.2.x or later installed.
2. Untar Vidalia's source tarball with tar -zxf vidalia-version-you-downloaded.tar.gz
3. Run cmake . && make from the location of Vidalia's source.
4. When the previous command finishes, Vidalia's binary will be placed in the root directory of the location of Vidalia's source.
5. Optionally, you can run make install to install Vidalia into your /usr/local/bin/ directory.

Mandriva 2007 (tested on x86_64 and x86_32)

1. You will need the packages from urpmi called qt4-devel which install needed qt4 packages.
2. Run cmake . && make from the location of Vidalia's source.
3. For easy launch, run make install as root to install Vidalia into your /usr/local/bin/ directory (su - then cd /path/to/vidalia/install-source/, then make install ).

Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu (tested on 6.06 and 7.04)

1. You will need the packages from Synaptic/Adept called qt4-dev-tools and qt4-designer.
2. Run cmake . && make from the location of Vidalia's source.
3. To use make install you may also need to add sudo in front of it.

Windows

1. Make sure you have Qt 4.1 or later and Tor 0.1.1.15 or later installed.
2. Untar Vidalia's source tarball with your favorite file archiver, such as WinZip or 7-Zip
3. Run cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" . from the location of Vidalia's source. If you want to use some other compiler like Visual Studio then change MinGW to what you want. More of this in INSTALL file
4. Run mingw32-make
5. When the previous command finishes, Vidalia's binary will be placed in src/vidalia/ subdirectory under the location of Vidalia's source.

OS X

These instructions use qmake and xcodebuild. So make sure to have Xcode.

1. Grab the qt-mac-opensource dmg and make sure to have Tor installed.
2. Get the Vidalia source (svn or the download page).
3. Run cmake -G Xcode .
4. Run make
5. Vidalia.app will reside in src/Vidalia/Vidalia.app.