These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
- 0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages
+ 0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages
of the same version to compile LyX.
In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config
- installed (the name might vary depending on your
+ installed (the name might vary depending on your
distribution).
1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
- may have to set --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
- (for example, "--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+ may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
+ (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
available.
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If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.8
-* autoconf >= 2.59d
-* gettext >= 0.16.1
+* automake (supported versions are 1.8--1.15)
+* autoconf (supported versions are 2.60--2.69)
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated above/below.
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First of all, you will need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means
-that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
+that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming like gcc (at
+least 4.x) or clang. Note that the compiler will be used in C++11 mode
+when possible.
LyX makes great use of the 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.
+library to be able to compile this version of LyX.
-For full LyX usability we suggest to use at least Qt 4.8 which has been
-widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at least
-Qt 4.5.0. 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.
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use Qt 4.x and at least Qt 4.8 which
+has been widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at
+least Qt 4.5.0 and at Windows we advise at highest Qt 4.8.4. 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.
To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
* Other things to note
-If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
-patch), you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed, due
-to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can get the latest version
-from:
+If you make modifications to the source that affect any of the
+translations or you change the translation files themselves (po/*.po)
+files, you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed to
+compile LyX with up-to-date translations (at least gettext version
+0.16.1 is needed). You can get the latest version from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
- o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged in
- as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
- that users can run these tests manually with Tools>Reconfigure.
-
- o Python 2.4 or newer must be installed. Python is used for many
- simple tasks that are executed by external scripts, such as the
- automatic configuration step and the import of older LyX documents
- with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
- opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
+ o Python 2.7 must be installed. Python is used for many simple tasks
+ that are executed by external scripts, such as the automatic
+ configuration step and the import of older LyX documents with the
+ lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when opening a
+ file). Python 3 (3.3 or later) support is work in progress.
Creating the Makefile
optimization -O2 -O2 -O -O2 -O2
assertions X X
stdlib-debug X
- concept-checks X X
warnings X X
debug X X X X
- gprof X
The defaults are as follows in terms of version number
- release: stable release (1.x.y)
+ release: stable release (2.x.y)
prerelease: version number contains alpha, beta, rc or pre.
development: version number contains dev.
+ The `profiling' build type uses the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option with gcc
+
+ The `gprof' build type compiles and links with -pg option with gcc.
+
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE
(i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
o --disable-nls suppresses all internationalization support,
yielding somewhat smaller code.
- o --with-included-gettext forces the use of the included GNU gettext
- library, although you might have another one installed.
-
- o --with-catgets allows to use the catget() functions which can
- exist on your system. This can cause problems, though. Use with
- care.
-
o You can also set the environment variable LINGUAS to a list of
languages in case you do not want to install all the translation
files. For example, if you are only interested in German and
If you encounter problems, please read the section 'Problems' at the end of
this file.
-The following options allow you to tweak the generated code more precisely:
-
- o --enable-gprof instruments the code for use with the gprof
- profiler. The results are only meaningful in conjunction with
- --enable-build-type=release.
+The following options allow you to tweak the generated code more precisely (see the description of --enable-build-type for the default values):
o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a
- higher level than the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.
+ higher level than the default, for example --enable-optimization=-O3.
o --disable-optimization - you can use this to disable compiler
optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
compilers, but LyX will run more slowly.
+ o --disable-cxx11 forces the compiler in C++98 mode. The default is
+ to use C++11 mode for known good compilers.
+
o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
- requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
- debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
- for development versions and prereleases only.
+ requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try
+ to debug problems in LyX. There is no run-time penalty.
o --enable-warnings that make the compiler output more warnings during
- the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
- this flag is on for development versions only.
+ the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings.
o --enable-assertions that make the compiler generate run-time
code which checks that some variables have sane values. Opposite
- is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
- development versions only.
+ is --disable-assertions.
o --enable-stdlib-debug adds some debug code in the standard
library; this slows down the code, but has been helpful in the
- past to find bugs. By default, this flag is on for development
- versions only.
-
- o --enable-concept-checks adds some compile-time checks. There is no
- run-time penalty. By default, this flag is on for development
- versions only.
-
- o --without-latex-config that disables the automatic detection of your
- latex configuration. This detection is automatically disabled if
- 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.
+ past to find bugs. Note that this is in general incompatible with
+ the system boost library (which is used when
+ --without-included-boost is specified). You may have to use
+ --disable-stdlib-debug when linking development versions against
+ your system's boost library.
o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
make install-strip
-BTW: in the images subdirectory there is also a small icon "lyx.png",
-that can be used to display lyx-documents in filemanagers.
+BTW: in the lib/images subdirectory there is also small icons
+`lyx.png' and `lyx.svg', that can be used to display LyX documents in
+filemanagers.
If configure fails for some strange reason
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`configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the source
code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
-If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
+If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH'
variable, you have to compile LyX for one architecture at a time in
the source code directory. After you have installed LyX for one
architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
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