On either platform, you'll need to have libpng and zlib.
For Linux, simply having them 'installed' will suffice. As
long as your system includes and libraries can find them, you
should be fine.
For Windows, you need to get the two new top-level packages from
our CVS archive. So, wherever you usually type 'cvs checkout abi'
you should also type
cvs checkout zlib libpng
You'll need to build zlib and libpng before you can build AbiWord,
but the AbiWord tree must exist before you can build them. The
following instructions should get you going:
cvs checkout abi zlib libpng
cd zlib
make
cd ../libpng
make
cd ../abi
make
If you have any problems, drop us a line here on the mailing list.
-- Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman eric@abisource.com