LyX wiki | Tips / Compiling

Categories: Installing LyX

<< Tips | Page list | OpenFileInRunningLyx >>

(Edit Section ↓)

Notes about compiling LyX

It takes a bit of space... over 500 MB ... this might go into the INSTALL file as a note. Oh, and you will get much less if you decide to not include debugging information by using the configure switch:

--disable-debug

The frontend option of configure isn't mentioned in the INSTALL file either.

It needs automake > 1.5 and autoconf > 2.54

(Edit Section ↓)

Based on recommendation from Andre and John

Note: These notes assume that xforms is properly installed (for the xforms-version).
Note: If you're using a .tar-ball instead, skip the cvs bit... duh.

Create a space to work in, the option -p to mkdir means that it doesn't protest if /space already exists, as in my case
mkdir -p /space
Check out the svn version (this takes quite a while). Please read these instructions on how to do this.

However, if you are using a tar-ball, do something like this:

cd /space

tar xzvf lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz

which will create a directory /space/lyx-1.3.0/ for you, so in the instructions below you should replace lyx-devel with lyx-1.3.0.

Create separate directories for the two frontends: xforms and qt
mkdir lyx-xforms lyx-qt
Run autogen.sh
cd lyx-devel
/autogen.sh
Build for xforms
cd ../lyx-xforms
../lyx-devel/configure --with-extra-prefix=/pkg/mdhacks/grp/util --with-version-suffix --prefix=/pkg/mdhacks/pkg/lyx/devel/os --disable-libtool-lock
(make)
Build for qt
cd ../lyx-qt
../lyx-devel/configure --with-version-suffix --prefix=/pkg/mdhacks/pkg/lyx/devel/os --disable-libtool-lock --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=... ??

Note: I was lucky enough to be doing this on a machine with two processors, so I could just compile for qt and xforms at the same time :-)

(Edit Section ↓)

Troubles Christian encountered

I'm working on a RedHat system (RH 7.3) where I am NOT root.

Install xforms

2. Make configure find xforms

First I thought it was enough just to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where the libraries resided...
Reading the install-file however, I had to use this configure line:

./configure --with-extra-lib=/pkg/mdhacks/grp/util/lib --with-extra-inc=/pkg/mdhacks/grp/util/include

For some reason it didn't work with the option: --with-extra-prefix (then it either didn't tind forms.h or the library) ... but when I tried it again later (after I'd already got it to work), then this option worked so I don't know... maybe I was just tired.

3. While trying to compile, it get's stuck waiting for a lock-file to

   disappear (which never happens, and the lock file doesn't really exist).

Adding the option: --disable-libtool-lock fixed that (Jean-Marc also suggested updating some packages, but since I'm not root that seemed more trouble than it is worth).

4. Ran out of disk space... sigh, had to move to another disk. The final ./configure I'm using is now:

./configure --with-extra-prefix=/pkg/mdhacks/grp/util --with-version-suffix --prefix=/pkg/mdhacks/pkg/lyx/devel/os --disable-libtool-lock

(Edit Section ↓)

Trouble with boost

  /usr/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../src -Winvalid-pch --include=./pch.h -I./.. -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_GENUINE_STR -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_KEYWORDS -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/QtCore -m64 -O2 -fPIC -pie -MT Forkedcall.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/Forkedcall.Tpo -c Forkedcall.cpp -o Forkedcall.o
 /usr/include/boost/type_traits/is_convertible.hpp:128: error: static data member �boost::detail::is_convertible_basic_impl<boost::_bi::bind_t<void, boost::_mfi::mf0<void, lyx::support::<unnamed>::Murder>, boost::_bi::list1<boost::_bi::value<lyx::support::<unnamed>::Murder*> > >*&, boost::signals::detail::signal_base*>::_m_from� used, but not defined

How to fix? I have boost-1.34.1-12.fc9. The same error is produced also without --without-included-boost . gcc is 4.1.2-34 (Fedora).

Installing LyX