| 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. 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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| 12 | |
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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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| 22 | |
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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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| 25 | |
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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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| 29 | |
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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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| 33 | |
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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, GDAL is used to support reading geodata files. If not available |
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| 38 | this feature is disabled. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | * Optionally, FFMPEG is used if available to implement Aven's movie export |
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| 41 | feature. If not available this feature is disabled. |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | Then at a shell prompt, unpack the source code, cd into the directory, and |
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| 44 | enter the following commands: |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | ./configure |
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| 47 | make |
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| 48 | make install |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | By default 'make install' will try to install Survex under /usr/local, |
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| 51 | which means you'll probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage. |
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| 52 | If you use sudo to manage root access, then: |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | sudo make install |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home |
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| 57 | directory) like so: |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex |
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| 60 | make |
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| 61 | make install |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you |
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| 64 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular |
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| 65 | one, then you can specify this like so: |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config |
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| 69 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary. |
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