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authorDimitri van Heesch <doxygen@gmail.com>2020-06-01 09:00:47 (GMT)
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Update installation documentation for Linux binary distribution
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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
/******************************************************************************
*
- *
+ *
*
* Copyright (C) 1997-2015 by Dimitri van Heesch.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
- * documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby
- * granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software
+ * documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby
+ * granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software
* for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
* See the GNU General Public License for more details.
*
@@ -19,16 +19,16 @@
\addindex installation
\tableofcontents{html,latex}
-First go to the
+First go to the
<a href="http://www.doxygen.org/download.html">download</a> page
to get the latest distribution, if you have not downloaded doxygen already.
\section install_src_unix Compiling from source on UNIX
-If you downloaded the source distribution, you need at least the
+If you downloaded the source distribution, you need at least the
following to build the executable:
<ul>
-<li>The <a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/">GNU</a> tools
+<li>The <a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/">GNU</a> tools
\c flex, \c bison, \c libiconv and <code>GNU make</code>, and \c strip
\addindex flex
\addindex bison
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ following to build the executable:
\addindex strip
\addindex python
<li>You need \c python (version 2.6 or higher, see https://www.python.org).
-<li>In order to generate a \c Makefile for your platform, you need
+<li>In order to generate a \c Makefile for your platform, you need
<a href="https://cmake.org/">cmake</a> version 3.1.3 or later.
\addindex cmake
</ul>
@@ -46,24 +46,24 @@ To take full advantage of doxygen's features the following additional
tools should be installed.
<ul>
-<li>Qt Software's GUI toolkit
+<li>Qt Software's GUI toolkit
<a href="https://www.qt.io/developers/">Qt</A>
\addindex Qt
version 4.3 or higher (including Qt 5).
- This is needed to build the GUI front-end doxywizard.
+ This is needed to build the GUI front-end doxywizard.
<li>A \LaTeX distribution: for instance
<a href="http://www.tug.org/interest.html#free">TeX Live</a>
This is needed for generating \LaTeX, Postscript, and PDF output.
<li><a href="http://www.graphviz.org/">
the Graph visualization toolkit version 1.8.10 or higher</a>
- Needed for the include dependency graphs,
+ Needed for the include dependency graphs,
the graphical inheritance graphs, and the collaboration graphs.
If you compile graphviz yourself, make sure you do include
- freetype support (which requires the freetype library and header files),
+ freetype support (which requires the freetype library and header files),
otherwise the graphs will not render proper text labels.
<li>For formulas in the HTML output (when MathJax is not used)
or in case you do not wish to use `pdflatex`,
- the ghostscript interpreter is needed. You can find it at
+ the ghostscript interpreter is needed. You can find it at
<a href="https://www.ghostscript.com/">www.ghostscript.com</a>.
</ul>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Compilation is now done by performing the following steps:
<ol>
<li>Unpack the archive, unless you already have done that:
-
+
gunzip doxygen-$VERSION.src.tar.gz # uncompress the archive
tar xf doxygen-$VERSION.src.tar # unpack it
@@ -106,16 +106,16 @@ Compilation is now done by performing the following steps:
should be available in the bin directory within the build directory.
<li>Optional: Generate the user manual.
-
+
cmake -Dbuild_doc=YES ..
make docs
To let doxygen generate the HTML and PDF documentation.
-
+
The HTML directory within the build directory will now contain the html
documentation (just point a HTML browser to the file
<code>index.html</code> in the html directory).
-
+
<li>Optional: static linking
If you want to build a statically linked version of doxygen that embeds libclang
@@ -142,32 +142,22 @@ Compilation is now done by performing the following steps:
\section install_bin_unix Installing the binaries on UNIX
After the compilation of the source code do a <code>make install</code>
-to install doxygen. If you downloaded the binary distribution for UNIX,
+to install doxygen. If you downloaded the binary distribution for Linux,
type:
- ./configure
make install
-Binaries are installed into the directory <code>\<prefix\>/bin</code>.
-Use <code>make install_docs</code> to install the
-documentation and examples into <code>\<docdir\>/doxygen</code>.
-
-<code>\<prefix\></code> defaults to <code>/usr/local</code> but can be changed with
-the `--prefix` option of the configure script.
-The default <code>\<docdir\></code> directory is
-<code>\<prefix\>/share/doc/packages</code> and can be changed with
-the `--docdir` option of the configure script.
-
-Alternatively, you can also copy the binaries from the <code>bin</code>
-directory manually to some <code>bin</code> directory in your search path.
-This is sufficient to use doxygen.
+Binaries are installed into the directory <code>/usr/local/bin</code>,
+man pages in <code>/usr/local/man/man1</code> and documentation in
+<code>/usr/local/doc/doxygen</code>
+To change this just edit the Makefile.
\note You need the GNU install tool for this to work (it is part of
-the coreutils package). Other install tools may put the binaries in
+the coreutils package). Other install tools may put the binaries in
the wrong directory!
-If you have a RPM or DEP package, then please follow the
-standard installation procedure that is required for these packages.
+If you have a RPM or DEP package, then please follow the
+standard installation procedure that is required for these packages.
\section install_src_windows Compiling from source on Windows
@@ -178,8 +168,8 @@ cmake can be downloaded from https://cmake.org/download/
At the moment only the express version of Visual Studio 2013 is tested,
but other version might also work.
-Alternatively, you can compile doxygen
-\ref install_src_unix "the UNIX way" using
+Alternatively, you can compile doxygen
+\ref install_src_unix "the UNIX way" using
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin">Cygwin</a>
or <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>.
@@ -224,30 +214,30 @@ Doxygen comes as a self-installing archive, so installation is extremely simple.
Just follow the dialogs.
After installation it is recommended to also download and install GraphViz
-(version 2.20 or better is highly recommended). Doxygen can use the \c dot tool
-of the GraphViz package to render nicer diagrams, see the
+(version 2.20 or better is highly recommended). Doxygen can use the \c dot tool
+of the GraphViz package to render nicer diagrams, see the
\ref cfg_have_dot "HAVE_DOT" option in the configuration file.
-If you want to produce compressed HTML files (see \ref
-cfg_generate_htmlhelp "GENERATE_HTMLHELP") in the configuration file, then
-you need the Microsoft HTML help workshop.
-You can download it from
+If you want to produce compressed HTML files (see \ref
+cfg_generate_htmlhelp "GENERATE_HTMLHELP") in the configuration file, then
+you need the Microsoft HTML help workshop.
+You can download it from
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21138">Microsoft</a>.
-If you want to produce Qt Compressed Help files (see \ref
-cfg_qhg_location "QHG_LOCATION") in the configuration file, then
-you need qhelpgenerator which is part of Qt.
+If you want to produce Qt Compressed Help files (see \ref
+cfg_qhg_location "QHG_LOCATION") in the configuration file, then
+you need qhelpgenerator which is part of Qt.
You can download Qt from <a href="https://www.qt.io/download">Qt Software Downloads</a>.
In order to generate PDF output or use scientific formulas you will also need to
-install <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">LaTeX</a> and
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript">Ghostscript</a>.
+install <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">LaTeX</a> and
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript">Ghostscript</a>.
For \LaTeX a number of distributions exists. Popular ones that should work with
-doxygen are <a href="https://miktex.org/">MikTex</a>
+doxygen are <a href="https://miktex.org/">MikTex</a>
and <a href="https://www.tug.org/protext/">proTeXt</a>.
-Ghostscript can be <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/">downloaded</a>
+Ghostscript can be <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/">downloaded</a>
from Sourceforge.
After installing \LaTeX and Ghostscript you'll need to make sure the tools