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First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
-means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 3.x).
+means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
library to be able to compile this version of LyX.
-LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2.x and Qt 4.3.x. The only special point
-to make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are
-compiled with the same C++ compiler.
+LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2/3/4.x. For compilation you need to compile
+against at least Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to make is that you must
+ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are compiled with the same C++
+compiler.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
- o --with-version-suffix[=VERSION] will install LyX as lyx-VERSION,
- e.g. lyx-1.6.1. The LyX data directory will be something like
- <whatever>/lyx-1.6.1/. Additionally your user configuration files
- will be found in e.g. $HOME/.lyx-1.6.1
+ o --with-version-suffix[=SUFFIX] will install LyX as lyxSUFFIX. The
+ LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyxSUFFIX/.
+ Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
+ $HOME/.lyxSUFFIX. The default for SUFFIX is "-<currentversion>",
+ e.g. lyx-1.6.1.
You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
frontend for now.
- o --enable-monolithic-[boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
- that enable monolithic build of the given part of the source code. This
- should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory
- (>500MB).
+ o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
+ that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
+ code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
+ enough memory (>500MB).
Compiling and installing LyX