| 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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| 8 | Otherwise you'll need to build from source. First of all, you need to make |
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| 9 | sure you have the required libraries installed. Where possible it's usually |
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| 10 | easier to install these using your Linux distribution's package manager. |
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| 11 | Note that C/C++ library packages are usually split into runtime and |
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| 12 | development, usually with similar names but with a -dev or -devel or similar |
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| 13 | suffix on the development one. You'll need both to build Survex. |
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| 15 | * The main dependency is wxWidgets 3.0 or later - if there's a suitable |
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| 16 | wxWidgets package for your platform, then just use that (note: library |
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| 17 | packages are usually split into runtime and development, usually with the |
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| 18 | same name but with a -dev or -devel or similar suffix on the latter. |
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| 19 | need both to build Survex). |
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| 21 | Otherwise download the source code from https://wxwidgets.org/ and |
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| 22 | follow their build instructions. IMPORTANT: You must enable OpenGL |
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| 23 | support by adding --with-opengl to the configure command line. |
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| 25 | * You'll also need a working C and C++ compiler (with support for C++11), and |
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| 26 | also the OpenGL development libraries if these aren't pulled in by installing |
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| 27 | wxWidgets. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | * Version 5.0 or later of the PROJ library is needed for coordinate conversion |
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| 30 | functionality. |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | * Optionally, FFMPEG is used if available to implement Aven's movie export |
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| 33 | feature. If not available this feature is disabled. |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | Then at a shell prompt, unpack the source code, cd into the directory, and |
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| 36 | enter the following commands: |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | ./configure |
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| 39 | make |
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| 40 | make install |
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| 42 | By default 'make install' will try to install Survex under /usr/local, |
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| 43 | which means you'll probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage. |
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| 44 | If you use sudo to manage root access, then: |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | sudo make install |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home |
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| 49 | directory) like so: |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex |
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| 52 | make |
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| 53 | make install |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you |
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| 56 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular |
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| 57 | one, then you can specify this like so: |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary. |
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