| 1 | Installing Survex on Unix
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| 2 | =========================
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| 3 |
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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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| 7 |
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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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| 15 |
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| 16 | Otherwise download the source code from https://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, and
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| 19 | you probably want to use --enable-unicode too.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | You'll also need a working C and C++ compiler (with support for C++11), and
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| 22 | also the OpenGL development libraries if these aren't pulled in by installing
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| 23 | wxWidgets.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | Then at a shell prompt, enter the following commands:
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| 26 |
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| 27 | ./configure
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| 28 | make
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| 29 | make install
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| 30 |
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| 31 | By default 'make install' will try to install Survex under /usr/local,
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| 32 | which means you'll probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage.
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| 33 | If you use sudo to manage root access, then:
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| 34 |
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| 35 | sudo make install
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| 36 |
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| 37 | You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home
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| 38 | directory) like so:
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| 39 |
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| 40 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex
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| 41 | make
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| 42 | make install
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| 43 |
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| 44 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you
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| 45 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular
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| 46 | one, then you can specify this like so:
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| 47 |
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| 48 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config
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| 49 |
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| 50 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary.
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