X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=d19159fb6e332431cf2478af04c0faf0d5d136e6;hb=71fe3282077d572aabcc6b76639476ab2d6ca151;hp=a3cf93e7699673911ca698d2e90ea6ee97c244d0;hpb=36099dce44d8cb11acc1b9c15c7222c458490779;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a3cf93e769..d19159fb6e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Quick compilation guide 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 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX: 1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You may have to set --with-qt-dir= - (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. @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ Note for Git checkouts ----------------------------- 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. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Requirements 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++ @@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ flags: 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. @@ -227,11 +230,10 @@ The following options allow you to tweak the generated code more precisely (see --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