These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
- 0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages
+ 0) Linux users beware: You need qt4/5 and qt4/5-devel packages
of the same version to compile LyX.
In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config
(for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
available.
+ You will need --enable-qt5 switch for choosing qt5 over qt4.
See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
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If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
-* automake (supported versions are 1.8--1.15)
-* autoconf (supported versions are 2.60--2.69)
+* automake (supported versions are 1.14--1.16)
+* autoconf (supported versions are 2.65--2.69)
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated above/below.
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First of all, you will need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means
-that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming like gcc (at
-least 4.x) or clang. Note that the compiler will be used in C++11 mode
-when possible.
+that the compilers are close to C++11 standard conforming like gcc (at
+least 4.6) or clang.
LyX makes great use of the 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.
-For full LyX usability we suggest to use Qt 4.x and at least Qt 4.8 which
-has been widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at
-least Qt 4.5.0 and at Windows we advise at highest Qt 4.8.4. 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.
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use Qt 5.6 and higher, or at the
+very least Qt 5.4. For compilation you need to compile against at least
+Qt 4.8 which has been widely tested, and for Windows we advise at least
+Qt 4.8.4. 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.
To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
compilers, but LyX will run more slowly.
- o --disable-cxx11 forces the compiler in C++98 mode. The default is
- to use C++11 mode for known good compilers.
+ o --disable-std-regex forces the compiler to use boost::regex. The default is
+ to use std::regex for known good C++ libraries, but the test is not robust for clang.
+ --enable-std-regex will force the use of std::regex.
o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try
--without-included-boost is specified). You may have to use
--disable-stdlib-debug when linking development versions against
your system's boost library.
+ The same problem applies to hunspell (as of hunspell 1.5). So either
+ compile --with-included-hunspell or --disable-stdlib-debug when
+ linking development versions against your system's hunspell library.
o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
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