Installation Guide

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/