1 Installation instructions
2 =========================
4 Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the Tig
5 repository http://github.com/jonas/tig[git://github.com/jonas/tig.git].
7 The quick and simple way to install Tig is:
12 By default, `tig` is installed in `$HOME/bin`. To install `tig elsewhere set
13 `prefix` to the desired path:
15 $ make prefix=/usr/local
16 $ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
18 Documentation files, such as manpages, are distributed in the release tarballs,
19 and can be installed using:
23 When installing directly from the Tig repository, `make install-doc` will assume
24 that the documentation tool chain is available and build the documentation
25 locally. In case you do not wish to install the required tools, documentation
26 can be installed from the 'release' branch using:
28 $ make install-release-doc
30 Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
31 upgrading, you are advised to read them before you install.
33 Installation using `configure`
34 ------------------------------
36 Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect dependencies:
42 If your `iconv` library is not in the default library and include path, you need
43 to pass the `--with-libiconv` option to `configure` to tell it where to look.
45 Note, if you are building from the Tig repository, you need to generate
46 `configure` yourself. First, ensure that `autoconf` is installed on your system,
47 and then run the following command:
54 Build settings are read from the file `config.make` and for certain systems also
55 from `contrib/config.make-$kernel`. An example of the latter is Mac OS X, where
56 `contrib/config.make-Darwin` provides out-of-the-box configuration for using the
57 system ncurses library and linking with the iconv library. This makes it easy to
58 configure the build without having to use the `configure` script. As a side
59 note, `configure` itself generates a `config.make` file.
61 Apart from the different standard `make` build variables (`CC`, `CFLAGS`, etc.)
62 and standard `configure` variables (`prefix`, `bindir`, etc.), build settings
63 can be one of the following compatibility flags:
65 - `NO_SETENV`: Define this variable to enable work-around for missing
67 - `NO_MKSTEMPS`: Define this variable to enable work-around for missing
70 The following example `config.make` manually configures Tig to use the ncurses
71 library with wide character support and include the proper ncurses header file
72 (see tig.h for more information):
75 CPPFLAGS = -DHAVE_NCURSESW_CURSES_H
77 For more examples of build settings, see `contrib/config.make` and
83 The following tools and packages are needed:
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86 |=============================================================================
88 |git-core |Tig is just a frontend for Git.
89 |ncurses or ncursesw |Be sure to have the development files
90 installed. Usually they are available in a
91 separate package ending with `-dev`.
93 Ncurses with wide character support (ncursesw)
94 is required to properly handle UTF-8 encoded
97 Note for packagers: For Tig's `configure`
98 script to work as expected you should avoid
99 configuring and building ncurses using
101 |iconv |If iconv is not provided by the c library
102 you need to change the Makefile to link it
104 |=============================================================================
106 The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
107 configure script and building documentation:
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110 |=============================================================================
112 |autoconf |Contains autoreconf for generating configure
114 |asciidoc (>= 8.4) |Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
115 |xmlto |Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
116 |DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0) |Used by xmlto for building manpages.
117 |DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools |Generates PDF from XML.
118 Also known as docbook-utils.
119 |=============================================================================