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                Installation Instructions for Window Maker



SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
===================
(ie: I've heard someone has compiled it on...)

- Intel GNU/Linux Conectiva 5.9 (beta)
- Intel GNU/Linux Slackware
- Intel GNU/Linux Debian
- Intel GNU/Linux other distributions
- Sparc GNU/Linux RedHat 5.1
- PowerPC GNU/MkLinux
- Alpha GNU/Linux RedHat 5.1
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- BSDI 4.0
- Solaris 2.5.1, 2.5.2
- Solaris 2.6.0
- Solaris 2.7beta
- Solaris 2.8 on Ultra Sparc 10 and E450
- SCO Unix
- SGI Irix 5.x, 6.5
- OSF/1
- HP-UX
- AIX 3.2.5
- AIX 4.1.4 / IBM PowerPC
- AIX 4.3.1 / IBM CC compiler
- AIX 4.3.2 / IBM PowerPC
- AIX 5.3
- DEC Alpha/Digital UNIX 4.x
- XFree86 / OS/2
- Corel NetWinder
- SunOS 4.x
- PowerMac / Power MachTen 4.1.1 over MacOS
- Amiga 3000 running RedHat Linux 5.1 (Rawhide)
- IBM S/390 running Linux
- IBM S/390 running Conectiva Linux (experimental)
- iBook running Darwin
- Darwin PPC / Macos X
- Windows NT with Cygwin/XFree86
- Sony PlayStation2 running Linux

All registered trademarks are registered by their owners. (duh)

Patches to make it work on other platforms are welcome. 


REQUIREMENTS:
=============

The following software is required to use Window Maker:

- X11R6.x       
        Window Maker can be compiled in older versions of X, like X11R5
        (Solaris) or X11R4 (OpenWindows) but it will not work 100% correctly.
        In such servers there will not be application icons and you'll have
        trouble using the dock. Upgrading the client libraries (Xlib, Xt etc)
        will help if you can't upgrade the server.

The following is required to build Window Maker:

- Basic obvious stuff
        If you will build Window Maker, make sure you have gcc (or some
        other ANSI C compiler) and the X header files installed. Specially
        for newbie Linux users: you must install all X development packages
        and the gcc suite. Otherwise you won't be able to build any X
        program, including Window Maker.

- autoconf, automake and libtool
        These tools are NOT needed, but IF you have one or
        more of them installed, make sure you have ALL of the following 
        with exactly these versions:
                autoconf 2.54
                automake 1.4
                libtool 1.4.2
        If you have a different version, disable them by temporarily
        renaming them to something else or uninstalling them from your
        system. If you don't develop software you don't need them,
        so you can safely uninstall.

- Xft2 and its dependencies (such as freetype2 and fontconfig)
        For the Antialiased text support.


OPTIONAL:
=========

These libraries are not required to make Window Maker work, but they
are supported in case you want to use them. Version numbers are those
that I have (and therefore, guraranteed to work), but other versions
might work too. 


- libXPM 4.7 or newer
        Older versions may not work!!! 
        Available at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/X/

        There is builtin support for XPM files, but it will not
        load images in some uncommon encodings.

- libpng 0.96 or newer and zlib     
        For PNG image support.
        http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/

- libtiff 3.4 or newer
        For TIFF image support.
        You can get it at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff

- libjpeg 6.0.1 or newer
        For JPEG image support
        http://www.ijg.org/

- libgif 2.2 or libungif
        For GIF image support
        ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/

- GNU xgettext
        If you want to use translated messages, you will need GNU gettext.
        Other versions of gettext are not compatible and will not work.
        Get the GNU version from ftp://ftp.gnu.org



CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
==================

These options can be passed to the configure script to enable/disable
some Window Maker features. Example:

./configure --enable-modelock --disable-gif

will configure Window Maker with modelock supported and disable gif support.


To get a list of other options, run ./configure --help

--with-libs-from
        specify additional paths for libraries to be searched.
        The -L flag must precede each path, like:
        --with-libs-from="-L/opt/libs -L/usr/local/lib"

--with-incs-from
        specify additional paths for header files to be searched.
        The -I flag must precede each paths, like:
        --with-incs-from="-I/opt/headers -I/usr/local/include"

--disable-shm
        disable use of the MIT shared memory extension. This will slow down
        texture generation a little bit, but in some cases it seems to be
        necessary due to a bug that manifests as messed icons and textures.

--disable-motif 
        disable support for mwm window manager hints

--enable-lite
        remove things that are already supported in desktop environments,
        like KDE and GNOME. Disabled things are: window list, root
        applications menu, multiple window selection. Note that you will not
        be able to exit Window Maker from itself anymore; you will have to
        use kill with the SIGTERM signal or exit it from KDE. It is not
        advisable to enable it.

--enable-modelock
        XKB language status lock support. If you don't know what it is you
        probably don't need it.

--disable-xpm   
        disables use of the XPM library even if it is available on your
        system.

--disable-png   
        disables use of PNG library

--disable-tiff
        disable use of TIFF library

--disable-gif
        disable use of GIF library

--disable-jpeg
        disable use of JPEG library

--disable-shape
        disables shaped windows (for oclock, xeyes etc.)


PLATFORM SPECIFIC NOTES:
========================

- DEC/Alpha machines

#>>>>>>>>>>>
From: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
To: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Is the WindowMaker package working ok on Alpha?

> Hi,
> 
>  I was reading some docs on the WindowMaker tarball, and found this:
> 
>  | - DEC/Alpha machines
>  |         You might need to pass the --disable-shm flag to configure,
>  |         like ./configure --disable-shm
> 
>  is anyone having problems with WindowMaker on Alpha?  Can someone
>  please test this?  Should the flag be passed when building on Alpha?

Disclaimer: alphas under my command have never run X and are least likely to 
suddenly start running it anytime soon.

        Alpha used to have some ridiculously low amount of shared memory
configured. 
So quite a lot of apps used to barf. Namely - cdrecord, mysql server, etc.

        Check where is yours at the moment and raise it to a more appropriate
value by either catting to the appropriate /proc entry or changing the
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/shmparam.h.

        Otherwise the shared memory on alpha should be fully functional and I
see no reason to disable it. Mine are bumped up to 32 or more on most
machines.

        And If I recall correctly the comments in that file are actually
wrong. Value is not bytes, but in machine size word. For alpha *8.

        As I said - I do not run X on them so all #include "stdisclaimer.h"
apply.
#<<<<<<<<<<<<


- SCO Unix - run configure like
        CFLAGS="-belf -DANSICPP" ./configure 

- SunOS, Solaris 
        If you have gcc installed, run configure as:
        CPP_PATH="gcc -E -x c" ./configure
        Sun's cpp lacks some features needed by Window Maker and it can
        cause problems when parsing the config files.
        You also might need to use the --with-libs-from and --with-incs-from
        to supply the directory where libtiff is located.
        Someone mailed me that you also must make /usr/local/lib be the
        first path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make it work.

        If you have a Ultra Creator 3D or some other machine with high-end
        graphics, be sure to start the X server with the default visual
        set to 24bpp or you might experience problems with mangled colors.
        This is a wmaker bug and will be fixed.

- GNU/Linux in general
        Make sure you have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and that you
        run ldconfig after installing.
        Uninstall any packaged version of Window Maker before installing a new
        version. 

- RedHat GNU/Linux
        RedHat systems have several annoying problems. If you use it, 
        be sure to follow the steps below or Window Maker will not work:

        * if you installed the Window Maker that comes with RedHat, uninstall
        it before upgrading;

        * make sure you don't have the LANG and LINGUAS environment variables
        set to en_RN;

        * make sure you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH environment
        variable;

        * make sure you have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf before running
        ldconfig;

- PowerPC MkLinux
        You will need to have the latest version of Xpmac. Older versions
        seem to have bugs that cause the system to hang.

- Debian GNU/Linux
        If you want JPEG and TIFF support, make sure you have libtiff-dev 
        and libjpeg-dev installed.

- SuSE GNU/Linux
        If you installed the Window Maker package from SuSE,
        uninstall it before trying to compile wmaker or you
        might have problems.

- MetroX (unknown version)
        MetroX has a bug that corrupts pixmaps that are set as window
        backgrounds. If you use MetroX and has weird problems with
        textures, do not use textures in titlebars. Or use a different
        X server.

INSTALLATION:
=============

Build Window Maker
------------------
        For a quick start, type the following in your shell prompt:

        ./configure
        make

then, login as root and type:

        make install
        ldconfig

or if you want to strip the debugging symbols from the binaries and make them
smaller, you can instead type:

        make install-strip
        ldconfig

This will build and install Window Maker with default parameters.

If you want to customize some compile-time options, you can do the
following. 

        1. (optional) Look at the CONFIGURE OPTIONS section above for the 
        options available. Also run:
 
        ./configure --help

        to get a complete listing of other options that are available.

        2. Run configure with the options you want. For example, if you
        want to use the --enable-modelock option, type:

        ./configure --enable-modelock

        3. (optional) Edit src/wconfig.h with your favorite text editor 
        and browse through it for some options you might want to change.

        4. Compile. Just type:

        make

        5. Login as root (if you can't do that, read the "I don't have the 
        root password :-(" section) and install Window Maker in your system:
                su root
                make install


User specific configuration
---------------------------

These instructions do not need to be followed when upgrading Window Maker
from an older version, unless stated differently in the NEWS file.

Every user on your system that wishes to run Window Maker must do the
following:

        1. Install Window Maker configuration files in your home directory.
Type:
        wmaker.inst

        wmaker.inst will install Window Maker configuration files and will
setup X to automatically launch Window Maker at startup.

        That's it! 
        
        You can type "man wmaker" to get some general help for configuration
and other stuff.

Read the User Guide for a more in-depth explanation of Window Maker.

You might want to take a look at the FAQ too.



Installing the extras package
-----------------------------

Unpack WindowMaker-extra-<version-number>.tar.gz in /usr/local/share
        
You can get the file at ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org. This file is optional
and only have a few icons, and themes. Look for the latest <version-number>
available.
Also there is a WindowMaker-extra.readme to instruct you where that package
should go.



I don't have the root password :(
---------------------------------

If you can't get superuser privileges (can't be root) you can install
wmaker in your own home directory. For that, supply the --prefix option
when running configure in step 2 of building Window Maker. You will
also need to supply the --with-appspath option, to specify the path for
WPrefs.app Example:

./configure --prefix=/home/jshmoe --with-appspath=/home/jshmoe/GNUstep/Apps


Then make /home/jshmoe/bin be included in your search PATH, add
/home/jshmoe/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and run 
bin/wmaker.inst

Of course, /home/jshmoe is supposed to be replaced with your actual home
directory path.



UPGRADING
=========

If you are upgrading from an older version of Window Maker:

   1. Configure and build Window Maker as always
   2. Install Window Maker (but do not run wmaker.inst)
   3. Read the NEWS file and update your configuration files if necessary.


TROUBLESHOOTING
===============

When you have some trouble during configuration (while running configure),
like not being able to use a graphic format library you think you have
installed, look at the config.log file for clues of the problem.


== Error with loading fonts, even if they exist.

Try rebuilding without NLS support.

== Error when configuring

ltconfig: unrecognized option `--no-reexec'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed

remove the --no-reexec option from aclocal.m4 and reconfigure
Also make sure the autoconf and automake versions you have installed are:
autoconf 2.13
automake 1.4
libtool 1.3

Note that it must not be libtool 1.2b, it must be libtool 1.3, 
from the GNU sites.

== configure doesn't detect libtiff, or other graphic libraries.

Delete config.cache, then rerun configure adding the following options to
configure (among the other options you use):
--with-libs-from="-L/usr/local/lib"
--with-incs-from="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/tiff"
Put the paths where your graphic libs and their corresponding header files are
located. You can put multiple paths in any of these options, as the example
of --with-incs-from shows. Just put a space between them.


== configure doesn't detect libXpm. 

* Check if you have a symbolic link from libXpm.so.4.9 to libXpm.so


== Segmentation fault on startup

* Check if the version of libXPM you have is at least 4.7

* Check if you have an updated version of ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker

If you're not sure, try renaming ~/GNUstep to ~/GNUtmp and then run wmaker.inst

== "...: your machine is misconfigured. gethostname() returned (none)"

* the hostname of your machine is set to something invalid, that starts
        with a parenthesis. Do a man hostname for info about how to set it.


== The root menu contains only 2 entries. ("XTerm" and "Exit...")

* Window Maker is not finding cpp (the C preprocessor). If your cpp is
not located in /lib/cpp, edit src/config.h and correct the path in
CPP_PATH.

== checking lex output file root... configure: error: cannot find output from true; giving up

* Read the REQUIREMENTS section of this file.


LOCALES/INTERNATIONALIZATION
============================

Window Maker has national language support. To enable national language
support, you must compile Window Maker with some additional parameters.


0 - You must have the GNU gettext package installed. It can be
obtained at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gettext-nnn.tar.gz

Steps 1 to 3 can be skipped if you use the Install script.

1 - You have to select the languages you want to support. Set the
LINGUAS to the list of locales you want. English is always
suported. Example:

setenv LINGUAS "pt ja de"
in csh

or

export LINGUAS;LINGUAS="pt ja de"
in sh

The list of supported locales can be found in po/README.
English is the default language.

Read po/README if you wish to translate and maintain locale files 
for other languages.

2 - Additionally, if your language uses multi-byte characters, such
as Japanese or Korean, you must set the MultiByteText option to YES
in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL 

3 - Configure, build and install Window Maker normally.

4 - To select a particular locale at runtime you must set the LANG
environment variable to the locale you want. For example, if you want to set
the portuguese locale, you must run

setenv LANG pt

in csh or

export LANG; LANG=pt

in Bourne sh and similars

Note: If you have the LC_CTYPE environment variable set, you must
unset it before running wmaker.

For menu definition files, Window Maker searches for them in the
following order (for brazilian portuguese, in this case):

menu.pt_BR
menu.pt
menu