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 qt5 and qt5-devel packages
of the same version to compile LyX.
In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config
1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
- (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+ (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt5/") 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 (supported versions are 1.8--1.15)
-* autoconf (supported versions are 2.60--2.69)
+* automake (supported versions are 1.14--1.16)
+* autoconf (supported versions are 2.65--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 like gcc (at
-least 4.x) or clang. Note that the compiler will be used in C++11 mode
-when possible.
+that the compilers are close to C++11 standard conforming like gcc (at
+least 4.6) or clang.
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.
-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.
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use Qt 5.6 and higher, or at the
+very least Qt 5.4. For compilation you need to compile against at least
+Qt 4.8 which has been widely tested, and for Windows we advise at least
+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
optimization -O2 -O2 -O -O2 -O2
assertions X X
stdlib-debug X
- concept-checks X X
warnings X X
debug X X X X
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 --disable-std-regex forces the compiler to use boost::regex. The default is
+ to use std::regex for known good C++ libraries, but the test is not robust for clang.
+ --enable-std-regex will force the use of std::regex.
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
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.
-
- o --enable-concept-checks adds some compile-time checks. There is no
- run-time penalty.
+ 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.
+ The same problem applies to hunspell (as of hunspell 1.5). So either
+ compile --with-included-hunspell or --disable-stdlib-debug when
+ linking development versions against your system's hunspell library.
o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
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