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author | Dimitri van Heesch <doxygen@gmail.com> | 2020-06-01 09:00:47 (GMT) |
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committer | Dimitri 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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diff --git a/doc/install.doc b/doc/install.doc index 5f15d8a..9820f3c 100644 --- a/doc/install.doc +++ b/doc/install.doc @@ -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 |