Chapter 2. Installation

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1. Options

The “configure” shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses those values to create a Makefile in each directory of the package. It may also create one or more .h files containing system-dependent definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script config.status that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file config.cache that saves the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring, and a file config.log containing compiler output (useful mainly for debugging configure).

If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to configure out how configure could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so they can be considered for the next release. If at some point config.cache contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.

The file configure.in is used to create configure by a program called autoconf. You only need “configure.in” if you want to change it or regenerate configure using a newer version of autoconf.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. cd to the directory containing the package's source code and type ./configure to configure the package for your system. If you're using csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type sh ./configure instead to prevent csh from trying to execute configure itself. To know all of the possible options, type ./configure --help or read the next section about options.

    Running configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

  2. Type make to compile the package.

  3. Optionally, type make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.

  4. Type make install to install the programs, data files and documentation.

  5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing make clean. To also remove the files that configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type make distclean. There is also a make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.

If you don't find the configure shell, you have to generate it with gen-conf.sh. The processing using the GNU build sytem gives a configure shell.

Caution

Verify QTDIR is properly set : QTDIR/bin should contain moc, qtconfig... , QTDIR/lib the libs and QTDIR/include the Qt headers ...

To compile the documentations, type make html and make install to install the documentation the share directory.

1. Options

In this section, you can find the most used options. To know all of the possible options, type ./configure --help

--prefix = value

The value is the path where you want to install Tulip. bin, include, lib directories was created in this location. By default, it is /usr/local/.

--enable-debug

Add compilation flags to allow debugging.

--enable-maintainer-mode = value

Enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer. For example, if you modify a Makefile.am file, it is detected and the Makefile is updated.

--CXXFLAGS

Enable to specify special tags for the g++ compiler. It is an important part to have great performings. For example, you can specify the architecture of your PC : --CXXFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -O3 --funroll-loops -mtune=pentium4 -narch=pentium4 -pipe". For more informations about the options of compilations for g++, see the web site of gcc, here.