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 building from source is very easy. First of all, you need |
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9 | to make sure you have the required libraries installed. The main |
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10 | dependency is wxWidgets 2.8 or later - if there's a suitable wxWidgets |
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11 | package for your platform, then just use that (note: library packages |
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12 | are usually split into runtime and development, usually with the same |
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13 | name but with a -dev or -devel or similar suffix on the latter - you'll |
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14 | need both to build Survex). |
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16 | Otherwise download the source code from http://www.wxwidgets.org/ and |
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17 | follow their build instructions. IMPORTANT: You must enable OpenGL |
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18 | support by adding --with-opengl to the configure command line. |
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20 | You'll also need a working C and C++ compiler, and also the X and |
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21 | OpenGL development libraries if these aren't pulled in by installing |
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22 | wxWidgets. |
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23 | |
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24 | Then at a shell prompt, enter the following commands: |
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25 | |
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26 | ./configure |
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27 | make |
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28 | make install |
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30 | By default 'make install' will try to install survex under /usr/local, |
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31 | which means you'll need to be root for the 'make install' stage. You |
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32 | can tell configure to install survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home |
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33 | directory) like so: |
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35 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex |
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36 | make |
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37 | make install |
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38 | |
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39 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you |
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40 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular |
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41 | one, then you can specify this like so: |
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42 | |
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43 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config |
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45 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary. |
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