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. 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 1.1.5, 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.
Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
available. If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 (or newer; 4.8 rumoured
to work).
+You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+
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 gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of
-egcs and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with
-other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x,
-and this is not likely to change in the future.
+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 (alpha)
-version from:
+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
+from:
- ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext-0.10.xx.tar.gz.
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext-0.10.xx.tar.gz.
LyX contains a hack to work around this, but you should not rely too
much on it.
--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
- o --with-lyx-suffix=STRING adds the given suffix to the names of the
- LyX binary and scripts, and the library directory. For example,
- "--with-lyx-suffix=1.1.6" would install a binary "lyx-1.1.6", and
- create a directory "/usr/share/lyx-1.1.6", install "reLyX-1.1.6" etc.
- Additionally, LyX will look for the user configuration file in e.g.
- "$HOME/.lyx-1.1.6". This feature is useful for installing more than
- one version of LyX on the same machine.
+ o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.2.0
+ The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.2.0/.
+ Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
+ $HOME/.lyx-1.2.0
+ You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX on
+ the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your own,
+ by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
+
There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
LyX:
o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible:
- - you have not installed the kernel sources. The you should
+ - you have not installed the kernel sources. Then you should
install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
whatever it is called in your distribution).
are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
sources fixes that.
+ o if you are using RedHat Linux 7.x, you must make sure you have the
+ 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
then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
installed.
- o If you have GNU gettext installed on your system (e.g. on linux),
- you will get tons of warnings like:
-
- bullet_forms.C:101: warning: passing `char *' to argument 1 of
- `__builtin_constant_p(int)' lacks a cast
-
- These are in harmless warnings caused by a bug in libintl.h, but
- will be solved if you use --with-included-gettext when configuring
- LyX.
-
o It is possible to compile lyx with Tru64 Unix cxx compiler
version 6.2, provided one uses
- CXX=cxx
- CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -std strict_ansi -g -O'
+ CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi'
+ CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -g'
+ CC=cc
Note that this will not work when compiling directly from the cvs
repository, due to the tricks used by automake for dependencies. Ask
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