0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
- 1) ./configure --with-frontend=[qt or xforms]
+ 1) ./configure --with-frontend=[qt3, qt4, or gtk]
configures LyX according to your system.
When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
--with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
* Qt frontend
-LyX has been tested with Qt 3.x, though Qt 2.x may happen to work too.
-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 3.x and 4.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.
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
If, however, your version of Qt does not use fontconfig, then TeX
fonts should be added to the font path. 'man xset' is your friend.
-* xforms frontend
-
-Both an Xforms and Xpm libraries should be installed to compile LyX.
-It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
-libraries, and their associated header files.
-
-The xforms library has been very recently updated to version 1.0.
-This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public
-License), and the availability of the source means that many bugs that
-have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You are advised to
-upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
-In fact, LyX 1.4.x no longer supports versions of xforms older than 1.0.
-
-You can get the source from
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/
-
-If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or Mandrake,
-we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib
-Look for the xforms-1.0-release.src.rpm or the binary libforms*.i386.rpm.
-
-In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
-
* Other things to note
If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
that users can run these tests manually with Edit>Reconfigure.
- o Python 1.5.2 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
+ o Python 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
opening a file).
want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required.
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
- find extra libraries (Xpm, xforms, qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
+ find extra libraries (qt3, qt4, gtk) it needs. Defaults to NONE
(i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
directories, separated by colons.