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| author | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2009-10-11 02:44:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2009-10-11 02:44:23 +0200 |
| commit | 444fab8f879f3c012668fadce3f27baf0c9d8942 (patch) | |
| tree | 25347d6193ba64c0269ea5955879872c029801cf /README | |
| parent | 2b5ac676ed1cbde1092d41acf0775b1c8d9a2baf (diff) | |
| download | qpdf-444fab8f879f3c012668fadce3f27baf0c9d8942.tar.zst | |
more build fixes
git-svn-id: svn+q:///qpdf/trunk@777 71b93d88-0707-0410-a8cf-f5a4172ac649
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Artistic License which may be found in the source distribution as "Artistic-2.0". It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. +Building on UNIX/Linux +====================== + For UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you can usually get by with just ./configure @@ -17,8 +20,32 @@ make install For more detailed general information, see the "INSTALL" file in this directory. -For specific information about building qpdf on Windows, see -"README.windows". +Building on Windows +=================== + +QPDF is known to build and pass its test suite with mingw (gcc 4.4.0) +and Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2008 Express. In both cases, cygwin is +required to run the test suite. Either cygwin or MSYS is required to +build as well in order to get make and other related tools. The MSVC +build has only been tested under cygwin. The mingw build requires +MSYS and will probably not work with cygwin. + +For details on how to build under Windows, see README.windows. + + +Additional Notes on Build +========================= + +QPDF's build system, inspired by abuild (http://www.abuild.org), can +optionally use its own built-in rules rather than using libtool and +obeying the compiler specified with configure. This can be enabled by +passing --with-buildrules=buildrules where buildrules corresponds to +one of the .mk files (other than rules.mk) in the make directory. +This should never be necessary on a UNIX system, but may be necessary +on a Windows system. See README.windows for details. There is a +gcc-linux.mk file enable "gcc-linux" build rules, but it is intended +to help test the build system; Linux users should build with the +"libtools" rules, which are enabled by default. The QPDF package provides some executables and a software library. A user's manual can be found in the "doc" directory. The docbook |