1 Installing Survex on Unix
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4 If you are using Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux or a distribution based
5 on one of these, you will find it easier to install one of the
6 prepackaged versions of Survex.
8 Otherwise you'll need to build from source. These instructions assume you're
9 building from released tar archive - if you want to build from by checking out
10 code from the git repository then you'll need additional tools installed,
11 documented at: https://survex.com/cvs.html
13 First of all, you need to make sure you have the required libraries installed.
14 Where possible it's usually easier to install these using your Linux
15 distribution's package manager.
17 Note that C/C++ library packages are usually split into runtime and
18 development, usually with similar names but with a -dev or -devel or similar
19 suffix on the development one. You'll need both installed to build Survex,
20 but typically installing the development package will automatically install
21 the corresponding runtime package too.
23 * The main dependency is wxWidgets 3.0 or later - if there's a suitable
24 wxWidgets package for your platform, then just use that.
26 Otherwise download the source code from https://wxwidgets.org/ and
27 follow their build instructions. IMPORTANT: You must enable OpenGL
28 support by adding --with-opengl to the configure command line.
30 * You'll also need a working C and C++ compiler (with support for C99 and
31 C++11), and also the OpenGL development libraries if these aren't pulled in
32 by installing wxWidgets.
34 * Version 7.2.0 or later of the PROJ library is needed for coordinate
35 conversion functionality.
37 * Optionally, FFMPEG is used if available to implement Aven's movie export
38 feature. If not available this feature is disabled.
40 Then at a shell prompt, unpack the source code, cd into the directory, and
41 enter the following commands:
47 By default 'make install' will try to install Survex under /usr/local,
48 which means you'll probably need to become root for the 'make install' stage.
49 If you use sudo to manage root access, then:
53 You can tell configure to install Survex elsewhere (e.g. under your home
56 ./configure --prefix=/home/olly/survex
60 If your wxWidgets installation isn't picked up automatically, or you
61 have more than one version installed and want to select a particular
62 one, then you can specify this like so:
64 ./configure WX_CONFIG=/opt/bin/wx-config
66 You can use both --prefix and WX_CONFIG= if necessary.