X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=70910637ea8ada4c6f6796879424b3841ea1b369;hb=b6a2a76700466b7ee712e2b733702da02c5ffd6b;hp=419252a4c582aefe035c680de4234b6c2a148da1;hpb=131f9b0b6235abe46616e56ecaf00d414aec71d7;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 419252a4c5..70910637ea 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX: 0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX. - 1) ./configure --with-frontend=[qt3, qt4, or gtk] + 1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. When compiling for Qt, you may have to set --with-qt-dir= @@ -55,11 +55,9 @@ library to be able to compile this version of LyX. Users of gcc 2.95.x will have to install the STLPort version of these libraries as the ones that come with gcc 2.95.x are too broken for us to use. -* Qt frontend - -LyX has been tested with Qt 3.x, though Qt 2.x may happen to work too. -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. +LyX has been tested with Qt 4.1.5. 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. Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get @@ -109,11 +107,8 @@ to create the Makefile by typing For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific flags: - o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you - want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required. - o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will - find extra libraries (qt3, qt4, gtk) it needs. Defaults to NONE + find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several directories, separated by colons. @@ -173,8 +168,8 @@ Moreover, the following generic configure flags may be useful: installation. [defaults to /usr/local] o --datadir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where all extra LyX - files (lyxrc example, documentation, templates and layouts - definitions) will be installed. + files (documentation, templates and layout definitions) + will be installed. [defaults to ${prefix}/share/lyx${program_suffix}] o --bindir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the lyx binary @@ -235,6 +230,10 @@ cases: latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this flag, please report it as a bug. + o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you + want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available + frontend for now. + Compiling and installing LyX ----------------------------