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@@ -1,280 +1,34 @@ -KDiff3-Readme -============= -Author: Joachim Eibl (joachim.eibl at gmx.de) -Copyright: (C) 2002-2006 by Joachim Eibl -KDiff3-Version: 0.9.92 + kdiff3 - a diff and merge program. -KDiff3 is a program that -- compares and merges two or three input files or directories, -- shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), -- provides an automatic merge-facility and -- an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts -- has support for TDE-TDEIO (ftp, sftp, http, fish, smb) -- and has an intuitive graphical user interface, -- also supports 64 bit systems. (Some build issues are discussed in here.) - - -Do you want help translating? Read the README in the po-subdirectory! - - -License: - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2, June 1991 - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or - (at your option) any later version. - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - GNU General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Steet, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA - - For details see file "COPYING". - -Exception from the GPL: - As a special exception, the copyright holder Joachim Eibl gives permission - to link this program with the Qt-library (commercial or non-commercial edition) - from Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), and he permits to distribute the resulting - executable, without including the source code for the Qt-library in the - source distribution. - - -Requirements & Installation: - Version 0.9.91 provides special support for KDE3, but it can also be - built without KDE3 if the Qt-libraries are available. - (I also test and use the program under Windows.) - It is now also possible to build with Qt4 (See further below). - - You always need - - kdiff3-0.9.91.tar.gz - - For building the KDE3-version - - KDE>=3.3 and QT>=3.3-libraries. (but not with KDE4) - - gcc, g++ with version >=3.2 - - For building the Qt-only-version - - QT-libraries (version >=3.3.0, but <4.0 or >=4.2.0). - (www.trolltech.com) - - for Un*x: gcc, g++ with version >=3.2 - - for Windows: VC6 / VC7.1 - - On some distributions it will be necessary to install developer - packages (RPMs) that contain include files for compilation: - - xorg-x11-devel (or x11-devel) - - qt-devel - - tdelibs-devel - -Installation for KDE3: - - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR). - If it doesn't contain the correct path, type - export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt (e.g. /usr/lib/qt3) - - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.91 and type - - ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity (your KDE3 directory here) - - (make clean) (Required if you already compiled once.) - - make (Run compilation) - - make install (You must have root-rights for this step.) - - For details also see the generic instructions in file "INSTALL". - - If some icons are not visible or don't seem right, probably the prefix - was wrong. Check where your KDE3 installation is located and - use that directory with the prefix-option of configure. - - This command should tell you: tde-config --prefix - - For SuSE and most distributions the prefix usually is /opt/trinity. - For Redhat/Fedora and Mandrake the prefix usually is /usr. - For a local installation, that doesn't need root rights try - - ./configure --prefix=$TDEHOME ($TDEHOME probably is the same as $HOME/.trinity) - - make - - make install (Installs everything in $TDEHOME. No root rights required.) - - Run $TDEHOME/bin/kdiff3. ($TDEHOME/bin is probably not in your path.) - Warning: If a local installation and a global installation exist, the local - menu, toolbar, help etc. will be used, even if you start the global - executable. To avoid confusion, better remove the local version then. - (rm -R `find $TDEHOME -name "*kdiff3*" -not -name "kdiff3*rc"`) - - On Fedora-64-bit systems the following configure-line was reported to work: - ./configure --prefix=`tde-config --prefix` --enable-libsuffix=64 --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib/ - Both --enable-libsuffix=64 and -with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib/ are needed; - without the first one it fails to find the KDE libraries, - and without the second one it fails to find libqt-mt - (strangely enough: libqt-mt is in /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib, - and "configure" tries /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib64) - If your qt-libraries are elsewhere please adapt the path accordingly. - - Some secondary dependencies aren't correctly discovered by configure. - If e.g the a linker error appears telling you something like - "Can't find -lacl" this probably means that you have to install - libacl-devel-*.rpm etc. +KDiff3 is a program that compares two or three input files and shows the +differences line by line and character by character. It provides an +automatic merge facility and an integrated editor for comfortable +solving of merge conflicts. +KDiff3 allows recursive directory comparison and merging as well. - If you run an older version of KDE and the make-process fails in the - doc- or po-directory, cd to the src-directory and run "make" there. Also run - "make install" there. This hopefully will create a working kdiff3-binary, - although without doc and language support. -Upgrading KDiff3 for KDE: - If you already installed an older version or KDiff3 and you have the - impression, that the new version doesn't work as described, you should try to - remove all files belonging to KDiff3 before reinstalling. - Try this search command to locate KDiff3-related files: - find $HOME/.trinity /usr /opt -iname "*kdiff3*" - (Will take a few minutes.) +Included features: +================== - -Building an RPM for Fedora Core (by Vadim Likhota) - Copy kdiff3-0.9.91.tar.gz into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE - Copy kdiff3.spec into /usr/src/redhat/SPEC - Run rpmbuild -bb --target i686 kdiff3.spec - Find kdiff3-0.9.91-fc.i686.rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/I386 - - -Installation for the Qt-only-platforms for Un*x: - (for Qt >=3.3.0 but <4.0) - - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR). - If it doesn't contain the correct path, type - export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt (e.g. /usr/lib/qt) - - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.91/src and type - - make -f Makefile.qt - - make -f Makefile.qt install (You must have root-rights for this step.) - (copies the files into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/doc/kdiff3) - - Note: The file kdiff3.pro was used to generate the Makefile.qt: - qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile.qt - If you want to build the Qt-only version _and_ the KDE-version, do this - in separate directories, otherwise there will be errors. - - A user reported that on his 64-bit machine running FC4 he had to edit his Makefile.qt - LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib64/ -L$(QTDIR)/lib64/ -L/usr/lib -L$(QTDIR)/lib/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib64/ -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm -lpthread - - -Build for Windows: - Use qmake and kdiff3.pro to generate - an appropriate Makefile. - qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile - - -Building KDiff3 (Qt3) for Mac OSX 10.3.8 (by Mark Teel) -------------------------------------------------------- - 1) Install Qt/Mac with thread support and static libraries. - 2) cd .../kdiff3-0.9.91/src - 3) Create a makefile for kdiff3 by executing: - qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile.qt - 4) Edit Makefile.qt and change the include path like so: - (old) INCPATH = -I/Library/qt3/mkspecs/default -Isrc ... - (new) INCPATH = -I/Library/qt3/mkspecs/macx-g++ -Isrc ... - 5) Execute: - make -f Makefile.qt - 6) After the build completes copy kdiff3 from the kdiff3-0.9.91/src directory to - /Applications - -Building KDiff3 (Qt4) for Mac OSX (with Intel processor) as a universal binary (by Michael Schmidt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1) Install Qt/Mac 4.x with thread support, static libraries and universal flag. - 2) cd .../kdiff3-0.9.91/src-QT4 - 3a) Create a makefile for kdiff3 by executing: - qmake kdiff3.pro - 3b) optionally generate XCode-Project (for debugging purposes only) by executing: - qmake -spec macx-xcode kdiff3.pro - 4) Execute: - make - 5) After the build completes copy kdiff3 from the kdiff3-0.9.91/src-QT4 directory to - /Applications - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -Building KDiff3 with Qt4: - -Requirements & Installation: - The version 0.9.91 requires Qt 4.2.0 (from www.trolltech.com) for compilation. - - You always need - - kdiff3-0.9.91.tar.gz - - - for Un*x: gcc, g++ with version >=3.4.2 - Qt-X11-libraries - - - for Windows: Qt-win-libs - If you have the Qt4 commercial edition, then compile with Visual Studio. - If you use the Qt4 open source edition, then you'll need MinGW. - I verified that compilation and debugging works with these packages (probably newer ones will also work): - - gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz - - binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar.gz - - gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz - - mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz - - mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz - - w32api-3.6.tar.gz (see also the note below) - - gdb-5.2.1-1.exe (for debugging) - - (Note: At the time of writing this README, the MinGW-package that was part - of qt-win-opensource-4.1.2-mingw.exe lacked the latest w32api needed for - KDiff3-compilation. You will need to unpack w32api-3.6.tar.gz or newer - from www.mingw.org into your MinGW-directory.) - - - for Mac: gcc, g++ with version >=3.4.2 - Qt-Mac-libraries - - -Note for KDE-users: - The version 0.9.91-Qt4 doesn't provide support for KDE-3.x - because KDE-3.x.y requires Qt3. - If you need KDE-specific features like TDEIO-support stick to the - normal version 0.9.91. - -Build-instructions (Unix or Mac): - - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct and that - your path contains the Qt4-bin-directory. - - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.91/src-QT4 and type - - qmake kdiff3.pro - - make (or "gmake" for GNU-Make) - -Build-instructions (Windows): - - Run your qtvars.bat in the Qt4-bin directory. - (This should set your QTDIR, QMAKESPEC and PATH-environment-variables.) - - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.91/src-Qt4 and type - - qmake kdiff3.pro - - make (which calls either "mingw32-make" or "nmake") - -Debugging with MinGW under Windows: -- The qt-win-opensource-4.2.0-mingw.exe only installs release dlls. You will have to compile the - debug dlls yourself. Enter the qt-4.2.0-directory and run "configure -debug" and then "make". -- cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.91/src-Qt4 -- edit the file "Makefile.Debug" and in the LFLAGS replace "-Wl,-subsystem,windows" with "-Wl,-subsystem,console" - (this is necessary so that gdb can send a break signal to the running program) -- make debug (create a debuggable executable) -- gdb debug\kdiff3.exe -- At the "(gdb)"-prompt type "run" and enter to start. -- While the program runs you can't set breakpoints, first interrupt it with Ctrl-C. -- Use "help" to find out about how to use gdb. (Important commands: run, break, backtrace, print, quit) - Using break with c++-methods requires to specify the parameter types too. Breakpoints in constructors might not work. -- I've tested graphical gdb-frontends too: - 1. Insight (also from mingw.org) worked until I wanted to interrupt the program for setting breakpoints. - 2. Dev-Cpp: The debugger said that the app crashed before even launching it. - Result: For Windows I recommend gdb on the console. Please tell me when things have improved! - -(End of KDiff3 with Qt4-instructions) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- +- compares and merges two or three input files or directories, +- shows the differences line by line and character by character (!) +- provides an automatic merge-facility and +- has an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts +- has support for TDE-TDEIO (ftp, sftp, http, fish, smb) +- has an intuitive graphical user interface +- has a Konqueror service menu plugin -Start from commandline: -- Comparing 2 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 -- Merging 2 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 -o outputfile -- Comparing 3 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 file3 -- Merging 3 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 file3 -o outputfile - Note that file1 will be treated as base of file2 and file3. -If all files have the same name but are in different directories, you can -reduce typework by specifying the filename only for the first file. E.g.: -- Comparing 3 files: kdiff3 dir1/filename dir2 dir3 -(This also works in the open-dialog.) + CONTRIBUTING +============== -If you start without arguments, then a dialog will appear where you can -select your files via a filebrowser. +If you wish to contribute to kdiff3 (TDE), you might do so: -For more documentation, see the help-menu or the subdirectory doc. +- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool. + https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea -Have fun! +- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool. + https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate |