Building LyX with SCons
=========================
-June, 2006
+July, 2006
The GNU Build System (autoconf, automake and make) has been used to build
2. *nix systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OSX)
3. Windows/mingw
4. Windows/cygwin
-5. windows/msvc
-6. Other versions of lyx (1.4.x)
+5. Windows/msvc
+6. Tips and hints
7. Troubleshooting
* frontend=qt3/qt4: qt3 is the default for all *nix systems including
windows cygwin. qt4 is the default for windows/mingw and windows/
- msvc. xform and gtk are not currently supported.
+ msvc. gtk is not currently supported.
* mode=debug/release: lyx will be built under the debug or release
directory, with different default build options.
* boost=included/system/auto: whether or not use included boost, system
* rebuild=target1,target2... By default, scons will exam all components
when you build lyx. You can free scons from some hard work and save
yourself some time by telling scons to rebuild only specified
- component(s).
+ component(s). rebuild=no, none, yes or all can be used as well.
* log_file: a log file of executed commands, default to scons_lyx.log
* exec_dir: directory where lyx binaries will be installed.
Default to $prefix/bin
* dest_dir: if specified, install to this directory instead of $prefix.
+ * version_suffix=yes/no/something : if specified, this suffix will be
+ appended to the user data directory.
Compiler choice and flags:
4. Windows/cygwin
=================
-LyX should be easy to compile, but the qt3 library in the cygwin
-distribution does not work with the current cygwin dll (version 1.5.19-4
-as of June 2006) due to broken threading support. You should either wait
-for the forthcoming 1.5.20 version or install a recent snapshot from
-http://cygwin.com/snapshots.
+LyX should be easy to compile, but you must use the most recent cygwin
+dll (version 1.5.20-1 as of July 2006) because the qt3 library in the
+cygwin distribution does not work with previous versions due to broken
+threading support.
To build lyx for cygwin, you should
* install (using the cygwin setup program) at least the following
packages and all other packages pulled in by dependencies:
- aspell grep libintl1 qt3-bin tar
- coreutils jbigkit libintl2 qt3-devel libiconv
- diffutils jpeg libpng python
- gettext libintl libpng2 sed
+ aspell gzip libiconv qt3-bin
+ aspell-dev jpeg libpng qt3-devel
+ gcc libintl libpng2
+ gettext libintl1 jpeg
+ gettext-devel libintl2 python
+
+ * install aiksaurus (http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/, optional):
+ There is no cygwin package for aiksaurus, so you should build it from
+ source. However, aiksaurus builds smoothly on cygwin.
* run scons as you would do under linux.
qt_dir=/usr/lib/qt3 qt_inc_path=/usr/include/qt3
-
5. Windows/msvc
===============
directories in VCProjectEngine.dll.express.config, as suggested in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/.
- * build qt4
+ * build qt3
+ - download qt3 source from Q../Free sourceforge.net website (not from
+ trolltech).
+ - compile qt3 as instructed
+
+ or qt4
- download qt4 source from trolltech (not the binary version, which
only works with mingw)
- get q../free patch for qt4
- To use the msvc debugger, you have to use mode=debug (default).
-6. Other versions of lyx (1.4.x)
-================================
-
-The scons build system is not yet distributed with lyx1.4.x. Support for
-the qt2 frontend of lyx1.4.x is, however, added to the trunk (1.5.x). If
-you have checked out both 1.4.x and the trunk, you can build lyx 1.4.x
-using commands similar to
-
- > cd lyx-1.4.x
- > scons -f ../lyx-1.5.x/development/scons/SConstruct
+6. Tips and hints
+=================
-Note that lyx 1.4.x does not use the latest version of the boost library
-so option boost=included is recommended.
+ * Using external boost libraries (install boost libraries and use
+ option boost=system) can speed up scons' starting time a lot, since
+ the boost headers will then be considered as system headers and will
+ not be included in the dependency tree.
7. Troubleshooting
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