runs the program so you can check it out.
4) make install
- will install it.
+ will install it. You can use "make install-strip" instead
+ if you want a smaller binary.
Requirements
LyX. It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
libraries, and their associated header files.
-As of LyX version 1.1.1, you will need to have Xforms library and header
-version 0.81, 0.86, or 0.88. Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
+As of LyX version 1.1.5, you will need to have Xforms library and header
+version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
recommended version. On some systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared
library versions of the Xforms library, which require an installation step
to configure the system.
available. If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
developers to request a version for your system. You can get it from
- http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
- ftp://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/
+ http://world.std.com/~xforms/
+ ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
(or similar locations at other sunsites like sunsite.unc.edu)
You will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means that the
-compilers knows a bit about the C++ standard. Compilers that are known
-to compile LyX are gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of egcs
-and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with other
-compilers. It is probably _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc
-2.7.x, but this may change in the future.
+compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. Compilers that are
+known to compile LyX are gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of
+egcs and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with
+other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x,
+and this is not likely to change in the future.
Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.1.x makes great use of C++
Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
this flag is on for development versions only.
o --enable-assertions that make the compilier generater run-time
- code which checks that some variables have sane values. Opposite
+ code which checks that some variables have sane values. Opposite
is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
development versions only.
All should be OK ;)
+Since the binaries with debug information tend to be huge (although
+this does not affect the run-time memory footprint), you maight want
+to strip the lyx binary. In this case replace "make install" with
+
+ make install-strip
+
BTW: in the images subdirectory there is also a small icon "lyx.xpm",
that can be used to display lyx-documents in filemanagers.
architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
architecture.
-Stripping LyX
--------------
+Preparing a binary distribution for the use of others
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+ o Compile LyX with the right compiler switches for your
+ architecture. In particular you might want to ensure that
+ libraries like xforms and xpm are statically linked. To this end,
+ you can use a command like
+
+ make LYX_LIBS='/foo/libforms.a /bar/libXpm.a'
-A LyX binary for linux is about 1M when compiled without debug-information
-and with dynamic libraries. If yours is much bigger you probably compiled
-it with debug-informations (-g). If you don't want to debug LyX just enter
+ Moreover, make sure you use the --without-latex-config switch
+ of configure, since others might not be interested by your
+ configuration :-)
- strip src/lyx
+ o Create a file README.bin describing your distribution and
+ referring to *you* if problems arise. As a model, you can use the
+ file development/tools/README.bin.example, which can be a good
+ starting point.
-before installing. Note that this is done automatically for public
-versions.
+ o Type `make bindist'. This will create a file
+ lyx-1.xx.yy-bin.tar.gz. Rename it to reflect you architecture
+ and the peculiarities of your build (e.g. static vs. dynamic).
+
+ o Check that everything is correct by unpacking the distribution
+ in some private place and running it. In particular, check the
+ output of `ldd lyx' to know which libraries are really needed.
+
+ o Upload your binary file to ftp.lyx.org:/pub/lyx/uploads.
Problems
The option --without-liberty disable the detection of -liberty. It
is meant for debugging purpose only.
- o There are several known bugs in gcc 2.7.xx that cause compiler
- errors. This is in particular the case in spellchecker.C under
- HP-UX 9.05 (ask Bernhard Iselborn <biselbor@rhrk.uni-kl.de> for
- more comments) and in lyxrc.C under Linux/Alpha or DEC OSF/1. In
- both cases, the solution is to recompile the offending file
- without optimization and resume the compilation process with
- 'make'.
-
o According to David Sundqvist <David_Sundqvist@vd.volvo.se>, some
changes are needed to compile with aCC on HP-UX 10.20. These are the
relevant changes in the makefile (with comments tagged on):
projects / lyx.git / blobdiff