These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
- qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
+ 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-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
+ --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
if the environment variable QTDIR is not set.
2) make
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.
-LyX has been tested with Qt 4.1.5. The only special point to
+LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2.0. 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.
make install-strip
-BTW: in the images subdirectory there is also a small icon "lyx.xpm",
+BTW: in the images subdirectory there is also a small icon "lyx.png",
that can be used to display lyx-documents in filemanagers.
If configure fails for some strange reason