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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <body>
- <h1><a id="installation">libvirt
Installation</a></h1>
-
- <ul id="toc"></ul>
-
- <h2><a id="compiling">Compiling a release
tarball</a></h2>
-
- <p>
- libvirt uses the standard setup/build/install steps and mandates
- that the build directory is different from the source directory:
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ xz -dc libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf -
-$ cd libvirt-x.x.x
-$ meson build</pre>
-
- <p>
- The <i>meson</i> script can be given options to change its default
- behaviour.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- To get the complete list of the options run the following command:
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ meson configure</pre>
-
- <p>
- When you have determined which options you want to use (if any),
- continue the process.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Note the use of <b>sudo</b> with the <i>ninja install</i>
command
- below. Using sudo is only required when installing to a location your
- user does not have write access to. Installing to a system location
- is a good example of this.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you are installing to a location that your user <i>does</i> have
write
- access to, then you can instead run the <i>ninja install</i> command
- without putting <b>sudo</b> before it.
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ meson build <i>[possible options]</i>
-$ ninja -C build
-$ <b>sudo</b> <i>ninja -C build install</i></pre>
-
- <p>
- At this point you <b>may</b> have to run ldconfig or a similar utility
- to update your list of installed shared libs.
- </p>
-
- <h2><a id="building">Building from a GIT
checkout</a></h2>
-
- <p>
- The libvirt build process uses Meson build system. By default when
- the <code>meson</code> is run from within a GIT checkout, it
- will turn on -Werror for builds. This can be disabled with
- --werror=false, but this is not recommended.
- </p>
-
- <p>To build & install libvirt to your home
- directory the following commands can be run:
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ meson build --prefix=$HOME/usr
-$ ninja -C build
-$ <b>sudo</b> ninja -C build install</pre>
-
- <p>
- Be aware though, that binaries built with a custom prefix will not
- interoperate with OS vendor provided binaries, since the UNIX socket
- paths will all be different. To produce a build that is compatible
- with normal OS vendor prefixes, use
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ meson build -Dsystem=true
-$ ninja -C build
- </pre>
-
- <p>
- When doing this for day-to-day development purposes, it is recommended
- not to install over the OS vendor provided binaries. Instead simply
- run libvirt directly from the source tree. For example to run
- a privileged libvirtd instance
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ su -
-# service libvirtd stop (or systemctl stop libvirtd.service)
-# /home/to/your/checkout/build/src/libvirtd
- </pre>
-
- <p>
- It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree
- using the ./run script (which sets some environment variables):
- </p>
-
- <pre>
-$ pwd
-/home/to/your/checkout/build
-$ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
- </pre>
- </body>
-</html>
diff --git a/docs/compiling.rst b/docs/compiling.rst
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index 0000000000..62519b6bdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/compiling.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+====================
+libvirt Installation
+====================
+
+.. contents::
+
+Compiling a release tarball
+---------------------------
+
+libvirt uses the standard setup/build/install steps and mandates that
+the build directory is different from the source directory:
+
+::
+
+ $ xz -dc libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf -
+ $ cd libvirt-x.x.x
+ $ meson build
+
+The *meson* script can be given options to change its default behaviour.
+
+To get the complete list of the options run the following command:
+
+::
+
+ $ meson configure
+
+When you have determined which options you want to use (if any),
+continue the process.
+
+Note the use of **sudo** with the *ninja install* command below. Using
+sudo is only required when installing to a location your user does not
+have write access to. Installing to a system location is a good example
+of this.
+
+If you are installing to a location that your user *does* have write
+access to, then you can instead run the *ninja install* command without
+putting **sudo** before it.
+
+::
+
+ $ meson build [possible options]
+ $ ninja -C build
+ $ sudo ninja -C build install
+
+At this point you **may** have to run ldconfig or a similar utility to
+update your list of installed shared libs.
+
+Building from a GIT checkout
+----------------------------
+
+The libvirt build process uses Meson build system. By default when the
+``meson`` is run from within a GIT checkout, it will turn on -Werror for
+builds. This can be disabled with --werror=false, but this is not
+recommended.
+
+To build & install libvirt to your home directory the following commands
+can be run:
+
+::
+
+ $ meson build --prefix=$HOME/usr
+ $ ninja -C build
+ $ sudo ninja -C build install
+
+Be aware though, that binaries built with a custom prefix will not
+interoperate with OS vendor provided binaries, since the UNIX socket
+paths will all be different. To produce a build that is compatible with
+normal OS vendor prefixes, use
+
+::
+
+ $ meson build -Dsystem=true
+ $ ninja -C build
+
+
+When doing this for day-to-day development purposes, it is recommended
+not to install over the OS vendor provided binaries. Instead simply run
+libvirt directly from the source tree. For example to run a privileged
+libvirtd instance
+
+::
+
+ $ su -
+ # service libvirtd stop (or systemctl stop libvirtd.service)
+ # /home/to/your/checkout/build/src/libvirtd
+
+
+It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree using the
+./run script (which sets some environment variables):
+
+::
+
+ $ pwd
+ /home/to/your/checkout/build
+ $ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
diff --git a/docs/meson.build b/docs/meson.build
index f4b29a2e59..e816953bf4 100644
--- a/docs/meson.build
+++ b/docs/meson.build
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ docs_html_in_files = [
'404',
'bugs',
'cgroups',
- 'compiling',
'contact',
'contribute',
'csharp',
@@ -111,6 +110,7 @@ docs_rst_files = [
'ci',
'coding-style',
'committer-guidelines',
+ 'compiling',
'daemons',
'developer-tooling',
'formatbackup',
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