Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of InstallAutotool

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01/20/09 15:57:05 (17 years ago)

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Alpar Juttner

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InstallAutotool

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+= Install on Linux/Unix (using autotool) = 
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+== Hardware and Software Requirements ==
+
+In LEMON we use C++ templates heavily, thus compilation takes a
+considerable amount of time and memory. So some decent box would be
+advantageous, but otherwise there are no special hardware requirements.
+
+You will need a recent C++ compiler. Our primary target is the GNU C++
+Compiler (g++), from version 3.3 upwards. We also checked the Intel C++
+Compiler (icc) and Microsoft Visual C++ (on Windows).
+If you want to develop with LEMON under Windows, you can use a Windows
+installer or you can consider using Cygwin.
+
+In this description we will suppose a Linux environment and GNU C++ Compiler.
+If you would like to develop under Windows and use a Windows installer,
+you could skip the following sections and continue reading
+\ref basic_concepts.
+However keep in mind that you have to make appropriate steps instead of
+the instructions detailed here to be able to use LEMON with your compiler.
+
+=== LP Solver Requirements ===
+
+The LEMON LP solver interface can use the GLPK (GNU Linear Programming
+Kit), CPLEX and {{{SoPlex}}} solver. If you want to use it, you will need at
+least one of these.
+See the '''{{{INSTALL}}}''' file how to enable these at compile time.
+
+=== Install from Source ===
+
+You can download LEMON from the web site:
+[http://lemon.cs.elte.hu].
+There you will find released versions in form of {{{.tar.gz}}} files.
+If you want a developer version (for example you want to contribute in
+developing LEMON) then you might want to use our Mercurial repository.
+This case is detailed [install_hg later], so from now on we
+suppose that you downloaded a {{{.tar.gz}}} file.
+
+Thus you have to do the following steps.
+
+Download the tarball either from the browser or just issuing
+
+{{{
+wget http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/pub/sources/lemon-1.0.tar.gz
+}}}
+
+Note, that the tarball is named {{{lemon-x.y.z.tar.gz}}} where {{{x}}}, {{{y}}} and {{{z}}} (which is missing if it is 0) are numbers indicating the
+version of the library, in our example we will have
+{{{lemon-1.0.1.tar.gz}}}.
+
+Then issue the following commands:
+
+{{{
+tar xvzf lemon-1.0.1.tar.gz
+cd lemon-1.0.1
+./configure
+make
+make check    # This is optional, but recommended. It runs a bunch of tests.
+make install
+}}}
+
+These commands install LEMON under {{{/usr/local}}} (you will
+need root privileges to be able to install to that
+directory). If you want to install it to some other place, then
+pass the {{{--prefix=DIRECTORY}}} flag to {{{./configure}}}, for example:
+
+{{{
+./configure --prefix=/home/username/lemon
+}}}
+
+We briefly explain these commands below.
+
+{{{
+tar xvzf lemon-1.0.tar.gz
+}}}
+This command untars the {{{tar.gz}}} file into a directory named
+{{{lemon-1.0}}}.
+
+{{{
+cd lemon-1.0
+}}}
+This command enters the directory.
+
+{{{
+./configure
+}}}
+This command runs the configure shell script, which does some checks and
+creates the makefiles.
+
+{{{
+make
+}}}
+This command compiles the non-template part of LEMON into {{{libemon.a}}}
+file. It also compiles the programs in the tools and demo subdirectories
+when enabled.
+
+{{{
+make check
+}}}
+This step is optional, but recommended. It performs a bunch of library
+self-tests.
+
+{{{
+make install
+}}}
+This command will copy the directory structure to its final destination
+(e.g. to {{{/usr/local}}}) so that your system can access it.
+This command should be issued as "root", unless you provided a
+{{{--prefix}}} switch to the {{{configure}}} to install the library in
+non-default location.
+
+Several other configure flags can be passed to {{{./configure}}}.
+For more information see the {{{INSTALL}}} file.
+
+=== Install the Latest Development Version ===
+
+You can also use the latest (developer) version of LEMON from our Mercurial
+repository. You need a couple additional tool for that.
+
+ - [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Mercurial]
+   - for obtaining the latest code (and for contributing into it)
+ - [http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ automake] (1.7 or newer)
+ - [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ autoconf] (2.59 or newer)
+ - [http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ libtool]
+ - [http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/ pkgconfig]
+   - for initializing the build framework
+ - [http://doxygen.org Doxygen]
+   - for generating the documentations (optional, but recommended)
+
+Once you have all these tools installed, the process is fairly easy.
+First, you have to get the copy of the latest version.
+
+{{{
+hg clone http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/hg/lemon-main lemon-src
+}}}
+
+The next step is to initialize the build system.
+
+{{{
+autoreconf -vif
+}}}
+
+Then the process is the same as in case of using the release tarball.
+
+{{{
+./configure
+make
+make check    # This is optional, but recommended. It runs a bunch of tests.
+make install
+}}}
+
+To generate the documentation, just run
+{{{
+make html
+}}}