| 1 | Installing Survex on Unix |
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| 2 | ========================= |
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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 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, and also the OpenGL development |
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| 22 | libraries if these aren't pulled in by installing 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 probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage. |
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| 32 | If you use sudo to manage root access, then: |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | sudo make install |
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| 36 | You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home |
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| 37 | directory) like so: |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex |
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| 40 | make |
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| 41 | make install |
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| 43 | If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you |
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| 44 | have more than one version installed and want to select a particular |
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| 45 | one, then you can specify this like so: |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config |
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| 49 | You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary. |
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