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 qt5 and qt5-devel packages
of the same version to compile LyX.
In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config
1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
- (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+ (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt5/") if the
environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
available.
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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.
First of all, you will need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means
that the compilers are close to C++11 standard conforming like gcc (at
-least 4.3) or clang.
+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 5.x and 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. For Qt 5 we recommend at least Qt 5.4. 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
The `gprof' build type compiles and links with -pg option with gcc.
- o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
- find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE
+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
+ find extra libraries (like Qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
(i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several
directories, separated by colons.
--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
- code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
- enough memory (>500MB).
Compiling and installing LyX
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