Fossil

</ol>

<p><hr>

<h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2>

<p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive or tarball
containing a snapshot of the <em>latest</em> version directly from
Fossil's own fossil repository. Additionally, source archives of
<em>released</em> versions of
fossil are available from the <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">downloads page</a>.
To obtain a development version of fossil, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Point your web browser to
<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/">
http://www.fossil-scm.org/</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>Click on the
<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline">Timeline</a>
link at the top of the page.</p></li>

<li><p>Select a version of of Fossil you want to download.  The latest
version on the trunk branch is usually a good choice.  Click on its
link.</p></li>

<li><p>Finally, click on one of the
"Zip Archive" or "Tarball" links, according to your preference.
These link will build a ZIP archive or a gzip-compressed tarball of the
complete source code and download it to your computer.
</ol>

<h2>Aside: Is it really safe to use an unreleased development version of
the Fossil source code?</h2>

Yes!  Any check-in on the
[/timeline?t=trunk | trunk branch] of the Fossil
[http://fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline | Fossil self-hosting repository]
will work fine.  (Dodgy code is always on a branch.)  In the unlikely
event that you pick a version with a serious bug, it still won't
clobber your files.  Fossil uses several
[./selfcheck.wiki | self-checks] prior to committing any
repository change that prevent loss-of-work due to bugs.

If you do not have the OpenSSL library installed on your system, then
add <b>--with-openssl=none</b> to omit the https functionality.

<li><p>
To build a statically linked binary (suitable for use inside a chroot
jail) add the <b>--static</b> option.

<li><p>
To enable the native [./th1.md#tclEval | Tcl integration feature] feature,
add the <b>--with-tcl=1</b> and <b>--with-tcl-private-stubs=1</b> options.

<li><p>
Other configuration options can be seen by running
<b>./configure --help</b>
</ol>

<li><p>Run "<b>make</b>" to build the "fossil" or "fossil.exe" executable.
The details depend on your platform and compiler.

<ol type="a">
<li><p><i>Unix</i> → the configure-generated Makefile should work on
all Unix and Unix-like systems.  Simply type "<b>make</b>".

<li><p><i>Unix without running "configure"</i> → if you prefer to avoid
running configure, you can also use: <b>make -f Makefile.classic</b>.  You may
want to make minor edits to Makefile.classic to configure the build for your
system.

<li><p><i>MinGW3.x (not 4.0)/MinGW-w64</i> → Use the mingw makefile:
"<b>make -f win/Makefile.mingw</b>". On a Windows box you will
need either Cygwin or Msys as build environment. On Cygwin, Linux
or Darwin you may want to make minor edits to win/Makefile.mingw
to configure the cross-compile environment.

To enable the native [./th1.md#tclEval | Tcl integration feature], use a
command line like the following (all on one line):

<b>make -f win/Makefile.mingw FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL=1 FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL_STUBS=1 FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL_PRIVATE_STUBS=1</b>

Hint: don't use MinGW-4.0, it will compile but fossil won't work correctly, see
<a href="https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview/18cff45a4e210430e24c">https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview/18cff45a4e210430e24c</a>.

<li><p><i>MSVC</i> → Use the MSVC makefile.  First
change to the "win/" subdirectory ("<b>cd win</b>") then run
"<b>nmake /f Makefile.msc</b>".<br><br>Alternatively, the batch
file "<b>win\buildmsvc.bat</b>" may be used and it will attempt to

and finally run one of the following commands:
<blockquote><pre>
nmake /f Makefile.msc FOSSIL_ENABLE_SSL=1 FOSSIL_BUILD_SSL=1 PERLDIR=C:\full\path\to\Perl\bin
</pre></blockquote>
<blockquote><pre>
buildmsvc.bat FOSSIL_ENABLE_SSL=1 FOSSIL_BUILD_SSL=1 PERLDIR=C:\full\path\to\Perl\bin
</pre></blockquote>
To enable the optional native [./th1.md#tclEval | Tcl integration feature],
run one of the following commands or add the &quot;FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL=1&quot;
argument to one of the other NMAKE command lines:
<blockquote><pre>
nmake /f Makefile.msc FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL=1
</pre></blockquote>
<blockquote><pre>
buildmsvc.bat FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL=1
</pre></blockquote>

<li><p><i>Cygwin</i> → The same as other Unix-like systems. It is
recommended to configure using: "<b>configure --disable-internal-sqlite</b>",
making sure you have the "libsqlite3-devel" , "zlib-devel" and
"openssl-devel" packages installed first.
</ol>
</ol>

<h2>3.0 Installing</h2>

<ol>
<li value="8">
<p>The finished binary is named "fossil" (or "fossil.exe" on Windows).
Put this binary in a
directory that is somewhere on your PATH environment variable.
It does not matter where.</p>

<li>
<p><b>(Optional:)</b>
To uninstall, just delete the binary.</p>
</ol>

<h2>4.0 Additional Considerations</h2>

<ul>
<li><p>
  If the makefiles that come with Fossil do not work for
  you, or for some other reason you want to know how to build
  Fossil manually, then refer to the
  [./makefile.wiki | Fossil Build Process] document which describes
  in detail what the makefiles do behind the scenes.

<li><p>
  The fossil executable is self-contained and stand-alone and usually
  requires no special libraries or other software to be installed.  However,
  the "--tk" option to the [/help/diff|diff command] requires that Tcl/Tk
  be installed on the local machine.  You can get Tcl/Tk from
  [http://www.activestate.com/activetcl|ActiveState].

<li><p>
  To build on older Macs (circa 2002, MacOS 10.2) edit the Makefile
  generated by configure to add the following lines:
  <blockquote><pre>
  TCC += -DSQLITE_WITHOUT_ZONEMALLOC
  TCC += -D_BSD_SOURCE
  TCC += -DWITHOUT_ICONV
  TCC += -Dsocketlen_t=int
  TCC += -DSQLITE_MAX_MMAP_SIZE=0
</pre></blockquote>
</ul>

implementation in the th\_main.c or th\_tcl.c source files.

All commands starting with "tcl", with the exception of "tclReady",
require the Tcl integration subsystem be included at compile-time.
Additionally, the "tcl" repository setting must be enabled at runtime
in order to successfully make use of these commands.

<a name="anoncap"></a>TH1 anoncap Command
-----------------------------------------

  *  anoncap STRING...

Returns true if the anonymous user has all of the capabilities listed
in STRING.

<a name="anycap"></a>TH1 anycap Command
---------------------------------------

  *  anycap STRING

Returns true if the current user user has any one of the capabilities
listed in STRING.

<a name="artifact"></a>TH1 artifact Command
-------------------------------------------

  *  artifact ID ?FILENAME?

Attempts to locate the specified artifact and return its contents.  An
error is generated if the repository is not open or the artifact cannot
be found.

<a name="checkout"></a>TH1 checkout Command
-------------------------------------------

  *  checkout ?BOOLEAN?

Return the fully qualified directory name of the current checkout or an
empty string if it is not available.  Optionally, it will attempt to find
the current checkout, opening the configuration ("user") database and the
repository as necessary, if the boolean argument is non-zero.

<a name="combobox"></a>TH1 combobox Command
-------------------------------------------

  *  combobox NAME TEXT-LIST NUMLINES

Generates and emits an HTML combobox.  NAME is both the name of the
CGI parameter and the name of a variable that contains the currently
selected value.  TEXT-LIST is a list of possible values for the
combobox.  NUMLINES is 1 for a true combobox.  If NUMLINES is greater
than one then the display is a listbox with the number of lines given.

<a name="date"></a>TH1 date Command
-----------------------------------

  *  date ?-local?

Return a strings which is the current time and date.  If the -local
option is used, the date appears using localtime instead of UTC.

<a name="decorate"></a>TH1 decorate Command
-------------------------------------------

  *  decorate STRING

Renders STRING as wiki content; however, only links are handled.  No
other markup is processed.

<a name="enable_output"></a>TH1 enable_output Command
-----------------------------------------------------

  *  enable_output BOOLEAN

Enable or disable sending output when the combobox, puts, or wiki
commands are used.

<a name="getParameter"></a>TH1 getParameter Command
---------------------------------------------------

  *  getParameter NAME ?DEFAULT?

Returns the value of the specified query parameter or the specified
default value when there is no matching query parameter.

<a name="globalState"></a>TH1 globalState Command
-------------------------------------------------

  *  globalState NAME ?DEFAULT?

Returns a string containing the value of the specified global state
variable -OR- the specified default value.  The supported items are:

  1. **checkout** -- _Active local checkout directory, if any._
  1. **configuration** -- _Active configuration database file name, if any._
  1. **executable** -- _Fully qualified executable file name._
  1. **flags** -- _TH1 initialization flags._
  1. **log** -- _Error log file name, if any._
  1. **repository** -- _Active local repository file name, if any._
  1. **top** -- _Base path for the active server instance, if applicable._
  1. **user** -- _Active user name, if any._
  1. **vfs** -- _SQLite VFS in use, if overridden._

Attempts to query for unsupported global state variables will result
in a script error.  Additional global state variables may be exposed
in the future.

<a name="hascap"></a>TH1 hascap Command
---------------------------------------

  *  hascap STRING...

Returns true if the current user has all of the capabilities listed
in STRING.

<a name="hasfeature"></a>TH1 hasfeature Command
-----------------------------------------------

  *  hasfeature STRING

Returns true if the binary has the given compile-time feature enabled.
The possible features are:

  1. **ssl** -- _Support for the HTTPS transport._
  1. **legacyMvRm** -- _Support for legacy mv/rm command behavior._
  1. **th1Docs** -- _Support for TH1 in embedded documentation._
  1. **th1Hooks** -- _Support for TH1 command and web page hooks._
  1. **tcl** -- _Support for Tcl integration._
  1. **useTclStubs** -- _Tcl stubs enabled in the Tcl headers._
  1. **tclStubs** -- _Uses Tcl stubs (i.e. linking with stubs library)._
  1. **tclPrivateStubs** -- _Uses Tcl private stubs (i.e. header-only)._
  1. **json** -- _Support for the JSON APIs._
  1. **markdown** -- _Support for Markdown documentation format._
  1. **unicodeCmdLine** -- _The command line arguments are Unicode._

<a name="html"></a>TH1 html Command
-----------------------------------

  *  html STRING

Outputs the STRING escaped for HTML.

<a name="htmlize"></a>TH1 htmlize Command
-----------------------------------------

  *  htmlize STRING

Escape all characters of STRING which have special meaning in HTML.
Returns the escaped string.

<a name="http"></a>TH1 http Command
-----------------------------------

  *  http ?-asynchronous? ?--? url ?payload?

Performs an HTTP or HTTPS request for the specified URL.  If a
payload is present, it will be interpreted as text/plain and
the POST method will be used; otherwise, the GET method will
be used.  Upon success, if the -asynchronous option is used, an
empty string is returned as the result; otherwise, the response
from the server is returned as the result.  Synchronous requests
are not currently implemented.

<a name="httpize"></a>TH1 httpize Command
-----------------------------------------

  *  httpize STRING

Escape all characters of STRING which have special meaning in URI
components.  Returns the escaped string.

<a name="linecount"></a>TH1 linecount Command
---------------------------------------------

  *  linecount STRING MAX MIN

Returns one more than the number of \n characters in STRING.  But
never returns less than MIN or more than MAX.

<a name="puts"></a>TH1 puts Command
-----------------------------------

  *  puts STRING

Outputs the STRING unchanged.

<a name="query"></a>TH1 query Command
-------------------------------------

  *  query SQL CODE

Runs the SQL query given by the SQL argument.  For each row in the result
set, run CODE.

In SQL, parameters such as $var are filled in using the value of variable
"var".  Result values are stored in variables with the column name prior
to each invocation of CODE.

<a name="randhex"></a>TH1 randhex Command
-----------------------------------------

  *  randhex N

Returns a string of N*2 random hexadecimal digits with N<50.  If N is
omitted, use a value of 10.

<a name="regexp"></a>TH1 regexp Command
---------------------------------------

  *  regexp ?-nocase? ?--? exp string

Checks the string against the specified regular expression and returns
non-zero if it matches.  If the regular expression is invalid or cannot
be compiled, an error will be generated.

<a name="reinitialize"></a>TH1 reinitialize Command
---------------------------------------------------

  *  reinitialize ?FLAGS?

Reinitializes the TH1 interpreter using the specified flags.

<a name="render"></a>TH1 render Command
---------------------------------------

  *  render STRING

Renders the TH1 template and writes the results.

<a name="repository"></a>TH1 repository Command
-----------------------------------------------

  *  repository ?BOOLEAN?

Returns the fully qualified file name of the open repository or an empty
string if one is not currently open.  Optionally, it will attempt to open
the repository if the boolean argument is non-zero.

<a name="searchable"></a>TH1 searchable Command
-----------------------------------------------

  *  searchable STRING...

Return true if searching in any of the document classes identified
by STRING is enabled for the repository and user has the necessary
capabilities to perform the search.  The possible document classes
are:

But to see if ANY document class is searchable:

        if {[searchable cdtw]} {...}

This command is useful for enabling or disabling a "Search" entry on the
menu bar.

<a name="setParameter"></a>TH1 setParameter Command
---------------------------------------------------

  *  setParameter NAME VALUE

Sets the value of the specified query parameter.

<a name="setting"></a>TH1 setting Command
-----------------------------------------

  *  setting name

Gets and returns the value of the specified setting.

<a name="styleHeader"></a>TH1 styleHeader Command
-------------------------------------------------

  *  styleHeader TITLE

Render the configured style header.

<a name="styleFooter"></a>TH1 styleFooter Command
-------------------------------------------------

  *  styleFooter

Render the configured style footer.

<a name="tclEval"></a>TH1 tclEval Command
-----------------------------------------

**This command requires the Tcl integration feature.**

  *  tclEval arg ?arg ...?

Evaluates the Tcl script and returns its result verbatim.  If a Tcl script
error is generated, it will be transformed into a TH1 script error.  A Tcl
interpreter will be created automatically if it has not been already.

<a name="tclExpr"></a>TH1 tclExpr Command
-----------------------------------------

**This command requires the Tcl integration feature.**

  *  tclExpr arg ?arg ...?

Evaluates the Tcl expression and returns its result verbatim.  If a Tcl
script error is generated, it will be transformed into a TH1 script error.
A Tcl interpreter will be created automatically if it has not been already.

<a name="tclInvoke"></a>TH1 tclInvoke Command
---------------------------------------------

**This command requires the Tcl integration feature.**

  *  tclInvoke command ?arg ...?

Invokes the Tcl command using the supplied arguments.  No additional
substitutions are performed on the arguments.  A Tcl interpreter will
be created automatically if it has not been already.

<a name="tclReady"></a>TH1 tclReady Command
-------------------------------------------

  *  tclReady

Returns true if the binary has the Tcl integration feature enabled and it
is currently available for use by TH1 scripts.

<a name="trace"></a>TH1 trace Command
-------------------------------------

  *  trace STRING

Generates a TH1 trace message if TH1 tracing is enabled.

<a name="stime"></a>TH1 stime Command
-------------------------------------

  *  stime

Returns the number of microseconds of CPU time consumed by the current
process in system space.

<a name="utime"></a>TH1 utime Command
-------------------------------------

  *  utime

Returns the number of microseconds of CPU time consumed by the current
process in user space.

<a name="wiki"></a>TH1 wiki Command
-----------------------------------

  *  wiki STRING

Renders STRING as wiki content.

Tcl Integration Commands
------------------------

When the Tcl integration subsystem is enabled, several commands are added
to the Tcl interpreter.  They are used to allow Tcl scripts access to the
Fossil functionality provided via TH1.  The following is a summary of the
Tcl commands:

  *  th1Eval
  *  th1Expr

<a name="th1Eval"></a>Tcl th1Eval Command
-----------------------------------------

**This command requires the Tcl integration feature.**

  *  th1Eval arg

Evaluates the TH1 script and returns its result verbatim.  If a TH1 script
error is generated, it will be transformed into a Tcl script error.

<a name="th1Expr"></a>Tcl th1Expr Command
-----------------------------------------

**This command requires the Tcl integration feature.**

  *  th1Expr arg

Evaluates the TH1 expression and returns its result verbatim.  If a TH1
script error is generated, it will be transformed into a Tcl script error.