distribution).
1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
- may have to set --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
- (for example, "--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+ may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
+ (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
available.
-----------------------------
If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.8
-* autoconf >= 2.59d
-* gettext >= 0.16.1
+* automake (supported versions are 1.8--1.15)
+* autoconf (supported versions are 2.60--2.69)
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated above/below.
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 at least Qt 4.8 which has been
-widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at least
-Qt 4.5.0. 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.
+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.
To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
* 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:
+If you make modifications to the source that affect any of the
+translations or you change the translation files themselves (po/*.po)
+files, you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed to
+compile LyX with up-to-date translations (at least gettext version
+0.16.1 is needed). You can get the latest version from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
that users can run these tests manually with Tools>Reconfigure.
- o Python 2.4 or newer must be installed. Python is used for many
- simple tasks that are executed by external scripts, such as the
- automatic configuration step and the import of older LyX documents
- with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
- opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
+ o Python 2.7 must be installed. Python is used for many simple tasks
+ that are executed by external scripts, such as the automatic
+ configuration step and the import of older LyX documents with the
+ lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when opening a
+ file). Python 3 (3.3 or later) support is work in progress.
Creating the Makefile
`configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the source
code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
-If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
+If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH'
variable, you have to compile LyX for one architecture at a time in
the source code directory. After you have installed LyX for one
architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
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</fontconfig>
- o Building on Solaris 11.1. Compilation does not work out of the box
- at the moment (incompatible iconv argument parameters.)
- One possible solution is to force ./configure to use appropriate
- POSIX/SUS level, e.g.:
- CPPFLAGS="-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500" ./configure --disable-nls --prefix=/opt/lyx
- For details see bug #8783.
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