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.
+ 0) Linux users beware: 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.
+ You may have to set
+ --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
+ if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for example,
+ '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could
+ install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your
+ distribution).
See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
2) make
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If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+* automake >= 1.8
* autoconf >= 2.59c
* gettext >= 0.12
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+
Requirements
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First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
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 4.4.x and 4.5.x. For compilation you
-need to compile against at least Qt 4.4.2. 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 all Qt versions since Qt 4.4.0. For compilation
+you need to compile against at least Qt 4.4.0. 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.
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
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
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).
+ opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
Creating the Makefile