Installation Guide

Note that starting from the upcoming release 1.3, the autotool based build environment will be deprecated.

If you use the latest development version, we already suggest using CMAKE on all platforms.

Build and Install from Source

In fact, LEMON provides two different build environments, one is based on ​autotool while the other is based on ​cmake. Your choice will mainly depend on the operation system you use.

• Choose autotool on Linux, Mac OSX and other Unices. It is also your choice if you use ​Cygwin on Windows.
  • Installation Guide for Autotool
• Choose cmake on Windows, though it also works with Linux.
  • Installation Guide for CMake

• You can also use the template build environment created for LEMON based projects.
  • Guide for the LEMON Project Template

More precisely,

• On Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX and other Unices
  • autotool is recommended, but cmake is also supported
• On Windows
  • with Visual Studio 2005/2008
    • use cmake which can generate
      • solution and project files for the IDE or
      • NMake makefile
  • with Cygwin
    • autotool is recommended but cmake is also supported
  • with MinGW
    • use cmake

Binary Releases

• Packages for openSUSE 10.2/10.3/11.x can be found in the science repository of the openSUSE Build Service:
  ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/