1 | Installing Survex on Unix |
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4 | If you are using Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux or a distribution based |
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5 | on one of these, you will find it easier to install one of the |
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6 | prepackaged versions of Survex. |
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8 | Otherwise you'll need to build from source. These instructions assume you're |
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9 | building from released tar archive - if you want to build from by checking out |
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10 | code from the git repository then you'll need additional tools installed, |
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11 | documented at: https://survex.com/cvs.html |
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13 | First of all, you need to make sure you have the required libraries installed. |
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14 | Where possible it's usually easier to install these using your Linux |
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15 | distribution's package manager. |
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17 | Note that C/C++ library packages are usually split into runtime and |
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18 | development, usually with similar names but with a -dev or -devel or similar |
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19 | suffix on the development one. You'll need both installed to build Survex, |
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20 | but typically installing the development package will automatically install |
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21 | the corresponding runtime package too. |
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23 | * The main dependency is wxWidgets 3.0 or later - if there's a suitable |
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24 | wxWidgets package for your platform, then just use that. |
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26 | Otherwise download the source code from https://wxwidgets.org/ and |
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27 | follow their build instructions. IMPORTANT: You must enable OpenGL |
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28 | support by adding --with-opengl to the configure command line. |
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30 | * You'll also need a working C and C++ compiler (with support for C99 and |
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31 | C++11), and also the OpenGL development libraries if these aren't pulled in |
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32 | by installing wxWidgets. |
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34 | * Version 7.2.0 or later of the PROJ library is needed for coordinate |
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35 | conversion functionality. |
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36 | |
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37 | * Optionally, FFMPEG is used if available to implement Aven's movie export |
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38 | feature. If not available this feature is disabled. |
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39 | |
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40 | Then at a shell prompt, unpack the source code, cd into the directory, and |
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41 | enter the following commands: |
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42 | |
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43 | ./configure |
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44 | make |
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45 | make install |
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47 | By default 'make install' will try to install Survex under /usr/local, |
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48 | which means you'll probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage. |
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49 | If you use sudo to manage root access, then: |
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51 | sudo make install |
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53 | You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home |
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54 | directory) like so: |
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56 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex |
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57 | make |
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58 | make install |
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59 | |
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60 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you |
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61 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular |
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62 | one, then you can specify this like so: |
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64 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config |
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66 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary. |
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