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This is exactly what I've done to get Facebook Open Platform running on Fedora 8, running in VMWare on a Vista Machine

• Install Fedora 8 using VMWare
• Setup a new vhost
  • The ServerName I've given is 'fbop'
  • Create a 'Hello, World!' index page
  • Add an entry to my host OS's hosts file, pointing fbop to my vhost. -- all works fine
• yum install php-devel
• Checkout the fb open platform from http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/fbopen/
• Download all dependencies for Firefox and libfbml -- (you can use [this shell script])
• ./build-all.py
• atk failed.
• export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
• comment out pkgconfig and glib from packages in build-all.py so they won't be installed again
• ./build-all.py
• cairo failed.
• vim dependencies/cairo-1.2.6/src/cairo-type1-subset.c add '#include <ctype.h>' right after '#include FT_TYPE1_TABLES_H'
• comment out all dependencies up to and including cairo
  • We need to make install this manaully (i.e. without the build-all.py script as it will unpack cairo again and write over our changes)
• cd dependencies/cairo-1.2.6
• ./configure; make; sudo make install;
• cd ../..
• ./build-all.py
• so close! ...xrender failed.
  • However, Fedora 8 alreaedy has libXrender 0.9.4 installed, and everything seems to work OK with this...
• coment xrender from packages in build-all.py
• ./build-all.py
• Fails after a little while...
• cd dependencies/mozilla
• sed -i "s@EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += \$(MOZ_GTK2_LIBS)@& -L/usr/lib -lXrender -lX11@" layout/build/Makefile.in
• cd ../..
• comment out result = system("tar ...
• ./build-all.py ... failed
• edit src/fbml.cpp to not use goto.
  • it's only two places, so being lazy I just copied and pasted the code at label exit to where the gotos were.
• ./build-all.py ... failed
• edit src/js/jsbit.h:173 and replace the second 'long' in sizeof
• ./build-all.py ... COMPLETE! hazzah!
• add extension=fbml.so to /etc/php.ini
• service httpd restart

There! Facebook Open Platform should be installed...

I'm not sure if anyone will actually use this - just thought I'd share how I got it working on Fedora 8.

If anyone's interested in me putting up here how I got the canvas working properly so I can completely test the Facebook App locally, send me an email paul.ferrett@servicecentral.com.au and I might put something together.

Have fun! Paul