-Compiling and installing LyX
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+Compiling and installing LyX with autotools
+===========================================
+
+This document is about compiling LyX with the autotools suite. If you
+want to compile using using CMake (in particular on windows), please
+refer to the INSTALL.cmake file.
+
Quick compilation guide
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install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
libraries. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details.
+Users of debian-based distributions are well advised to run
+'apt-get build-dep lyx' before compiling to install proper dependencies.
+
* Other things to note
stdlib-debug X
warnings X X
debug X X X X
+ maintainer-mode X
The defaults are as follows in terms of version number
release: stable release (2.x.y)
- prerelease: version number contains alpha, beta, rc or pre.
- development: version number contains dev.
+ prerelease: version number contains `alpha', `beta', `rc' or `pre'.
+ development: version number contains `dev'.
The `profiling' build type uses the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option with gcc
The `gprof' build type compiles and links with -pg option with gcc.
-o --disable-qt5 that forces configuration with Qt 4.x when Qt 5.x is
+ o --disable-qt5 that forces configuration with Qt 4.x when Qt 5.x is
also available. By default Qt5 is tried first, and then Qt4.
-o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
+ o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (like Qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
(i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
directories, separated by colons.