These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
- 0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
- qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
-
- 1) ./configure
- configures LyX according to your system.
- When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
- --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
- if the environment variable QTDIR is not set.
+ 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
+ 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
+ environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
+ available.
+
See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
2) make
if you want a smaller binary.
-Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
+Note for Git checkouts
-----------------------------
-If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
+* automake >= 1.8
* autoconf >= 2.59c
-* gettext >= 0.12
+* gettext >= 0.16.1
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
-files and proceed as stated below.
+files and proceed as stated above/below.
You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+
Requirements
------------
First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
-means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 3.x).
+means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
-LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
+LyX makes great use of 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.
-LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2.x and Qt 4.3.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
-maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
-
- ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig
+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.
-at the console. Most recent distributions are known to use fontconfig.
+To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
+install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
+libraries. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details.
-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.
* Other things to note
from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
-To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
-from:
- http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/
-
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 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
+ 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).
+ opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
Creating the Makefile
./configure
-For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific
+For more complicated cases, LyX configure honors the following specific
flags:
- o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), dev(elopment), pre(release)]
+ o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), pre(release), dev(elopment), prof(iling), gprof]
allows to tweak the compiled code. The following table describes
the settings in terms of various options that are described later
- release prerelease development
- optimization -O2 -O2 -O
+ release prerelease development profiling gprof
+ optimization -O2 -O2 -O -O2 -O2
assertions X X
stdlib-debug X
concept-checks X X
warnings X X
- debug X X
+ debug X X X X
+ gprof X
The default are as follows in terms of version number
release: stable release (1.x.y)
prerelease: version number contains alpha, beta, rc or pre.
- development: version number contains svn.
+ development: version number contains dev.
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE
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=-latestsvn
+ ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestdev
Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
--program-suffix and the others will not affect the shared LyX
The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code:
- o --enable-profiling instruments the code for use with the gprof
+ o --enable-gprof instruments the code for use with the gprof
profiler. The result are only meaningful in conjunction with
--enable-build-type=release.
want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
frontend for now.
- o --enable-monolithic-[boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
- that enable monolithic build of the given part of the source code. This
- should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory
- (>500MB).
+ o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
+ that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
+ code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
+ enough memory (>500MB).
Compiling and installing LyX
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