-Note for CVS checkouts
-----------------------
-
-If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have
-automake, autoconf, and gettext installed. Then,
-type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
-files and proceed as stated below.
-
Compiling and installing LyX
============================
if you want a smaller binary.
+Note for CVS checkouts
+----------------------
+
+If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have
+automake, autoconf, and gettext installed. Then,
+type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
+files and proceed as stated below.
+
+You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+
Requirements
------------
-You will need to have both an Xforms library and Xpm library to compile
-LyX. It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
+First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
+means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming.
+Compilers that are known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and
+later, and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your
+experience with other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX
+with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the
+future.
+
+Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.2.x 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.
+
+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.
-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, but 0.89.6 seems to be work very well too. 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.
+As of LyX version 1.2.0, you will need to have Xforms library and
+header version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.89.6 is the one which works
+best, but the old stable 0.88.1 version is still supported. 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.
Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
available. If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
-In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 (or newer; 4.8 rumoured
-to work).
+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
+as the rpm packages commonly found are compiled against glibc 2.0
+instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes.
-To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
-from :
+In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
- http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
-
-You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+Note that the Qt and Gnome frontends are still under development, and
+as a result are only useful if you want to help out with testing and
+development.
-libXpm can be found at:
- http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/sunsite/X11/libs/!INDEX.html
- (or similar locations at other sunsites like sunsite.unc.edu)
-
-You will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means that the
-compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. Compilers that are
-known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and later, and Digital
-C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your experience with other
-compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x and
-2.8.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
-to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
-version.
-
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 find the latest version
LyX contains a hack to work around this, but you should not rely too
much on it.
+To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
+from :
+ http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
+
Finally, the two following programs should be available at
configuration time:
the machine on which LyX is built is not the one where it will
run).
- o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged
+ 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 Option->Configure.
+ that users can run these tests manually with Edit>Reconfigure.
Creating the Makefile
the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your own,
by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
+ Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,--program-suffix
+ and the others will not affect the shared LyX directory etc. so it
+ is recommended that you use --with-version-suffix (or --prefix) instead.
+
o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a
higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.
the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
this flag is on for development versions only.
- o --enable-assertions that make the compilier generater run-time
+ 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.
flag, please report it as a bug.
o --without-liberty suppresses the detection of the -liberty library
- (see the section 'Problems').
+ (see the section `Problems').
Compiling and installing LyX
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
+this does not affect the run-time memory footprint), you might want
to strip the lyx binary. In this case replace "make install" with
make install-strip
------------------------------------------------------
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'
-
- Moreover, make sure you use the --without-latex-config switch
+ architecture. Make sure you use the --without-latex-config switch
of configure, since others might not be interested by your
- configuration :-)
+ configuration :-)
o Create a file README.bin describing your distribution and
referring to *you* if problems arise. As a model, you can use the
Angus Leeming <leeming@lyx.org> for details.
Angus 22 March, 2002.
- o According to John Collins <collins@phys.psu.edu>, on SunOS 4.1.3 you may
- find two sets of X libraries, and they are of course incompatible :-)
- One is the set provided as part of OpenWindows, and one is the standard
- X distribution (e.g., X11R5). If you encounter problems (or if, for
- some obscure reasons configure cannot find your X libraries) you can
- use the following options:
-
- o --x-libraries=DIRECTORY that indicates where the X libraries reside.
-
- o --x-includes=DIRECTORY that indicate where the X include files reside.
-
- The standard X11R5 libraries should work when the OpenWindows ones
- don't.
-
o Some systems lack functions that LyX needs. To fix this, configure
tries to link against the -liberty library, if it is available.
If you experience problems with missing symbols at link time, you
LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed.
- o On Digital Unix with gcc, you can get warnings like
-
-warning, LyXFamilyNames not found in original or external symbol tables, value defaults to 0
-
- These concern symbols beginning with an uppercase letter and seems
- to be harmless. Similarly, the compilation can end with the
- following warning:
-
-/bin/ld:
-Warning: Linking some objects which contain exception information sections
- and some which do not. This may cause fatal runtime exception handling
- problems (last obj encountered without exceptions was ../intl/libintl.a).
-
-
- You can safely ignore it.
-
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