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
configures LyX according to your system.
When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
--with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
if you want a smaller binary.
-Note for CVS checkouts
-----------------------
+Note for Subversion checkouts
+-----------------------------
-If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.9
+If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
+* automake >= 1.5
* autoconf >= 2.52
* gettext >= 0.12
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
will have to install the STLPort version of these libraries as the
ones that come with gcc 2.95.x are too broken for us to use.
-* 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 4.1.5. 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).
For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific
flags:
- o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
- 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 (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE
(i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
directories, separated by colons.
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
own, by doing something like :
- ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
+ ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestsvn
Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
--program-suffix and the others will not affect the shared LyX
installation. [defaults to /usr/local]
o --datadir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where all extra LyX
- files (lyxrc example, documentation, templates and layouts
- definitions) will be installed.
+ files (documentation, templates and layout definitions)
+ will be installed.
[defaults to ${prefix}/share/lyx${program_suffix}]
o --bindir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the lyx binary
latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this
flag, please report it as a bug.
+ o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
+ want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
+ frontend for now.
+
Compiling and installing LyX
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