0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
- 1) ./configure
- configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
- the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
- version. You may have to set
+ 1) ./configure --with-frontend=[qt or xforms]
+ configures LyX according to your system.
+ When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
--with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
if the environment variable QTDIR is not set.
will have to install the STLPort version of these libraries as the
ones that come with gcc 2.95.x are too broken for us to use.
+* Qt frontend
+
+LyX has been tested with Qt 3.x, though Qt 2.x may happen to work too.
+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
+
+at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known
+to use fontconfig.
+
+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.
+
* xforms frontend
Both an Xforms and Xpm libraries should be installed to compile LyX.
License), and the availability of the source means that many bugs that
have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You are advised to
upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
-In fact, LyX 1.3.x no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
+In fact, LyX 1.4.x no longer supports versions of xforms older than 1.0.
You can get the source from
- http://world.std.com/~xforms/
- ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/OpenSource/xforms-1.0-release.tgz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/OpenSource/xforms-1.0-release.tgz
+ http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/
If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or Mandrake,
we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
-* Qt frontend
-
-LyX has been tested with both Qt 2.x and 3.x libraries. 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
-
-at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known
-to use fontconfig.
-
-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
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:
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.4.tar.gz
-
-LyX contains a hack to work around this, but you should not rely too
-much on it.
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
from:
latest updated gcc and related packages installed (at least -85),
or LyX will not compile or will be mis-compiled.
- o if you get an error message when compiling LyX that looks like this :
-
- ../../src/minibuffer.h:17: using directive `Object' introduced
- ambiguous type `_ObjectRec *'
-
- then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
- installed.
-
o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
work with Solaris make.
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