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diff --git a/doc/installation.doc b/doc/installation.doc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ee3129fe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/installation.doc @@ -0,0 +1,300 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Installation page +** +** Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Trolltech ASA. All rights reserved. +** +** This file is part of the Qt GUI Toolkit. +** +** This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General +** Public License versions 2.0 or 3.0 as published by the Free +** Software Foundation and appearing in the files LICENSE.GPL2 +** and LICENSE.GPL3 included in the packaging of this file. +** Alternatively you may (at your option) use any later version +** of the GNU General Public License if such license has been +** publicly approved by Trolltech ASA (or its successors, if any) +** and the KDE Free Qt Foundation. +** +** Please review the following information to ensure GNU General +** Public Licensing retquirements will be met: +** http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/opensource/. +** If you are unsure which license is appropriate for your use, please +** review the following information: +** http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/licensingoverview +** or contact the sales department at sales@trolltech.com. +** +** This file may be used under the terms of the Q Public License as +** defined by Trolltech ASA and appearing in the file LICENSE.QPL +** included in the packaging of this file. Licensees holding valid Qt +** Commercial licenses may use this file in accordance with the Qt +** Commercial License Agreement provided with the Software. +** +** This file is provided "AS IS" with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +** INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR +** A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Trolltech reserves all rights not granted +** herein. +** +**********************************************************************/ + +/*! \page installation.html + +\title Installation + +The installation procedure is different for the different Qt platforms: + +\list + \i \link install-x11.html Qt/X11 \endlink + \i \link install-win.html Qt/Windows \endlink + \i \link install-mac.html Qt/Mac \endlink + \i \link emb-install.html Qt/Embedded \endlink +\endlist + +*/ + +/*! \page install-x11.html + +\title Installing Qt/X11 + +You may need to be root, depending on the permissions of the directories +where you choose to install Qt. + +\list 1 +\i Unpack the archive if you have not done so already: + +\code + cd /usr/local + gunzip qt-x11-version.tar.gz # uncompress the archive + tar xf qt-x11-version.tar # unpack it +\endcode + + This creates the directory /usr/local/qt-\e version containing the + files from the main archive. + + Rename qt-\e version to qt (or make a symlink): + +\code + mv qt-version qt +\endcode + + The rest of this file assumes that Qt is installed in \c /usr/local/qt. + +\i Set some environment variables in the file \c .profile (or \c .login, + depending on your shell) in your home directory. Create the + file if it is not there already. + + \list + \i QTDIR -- the directory in which you're building Qt + \i PATH -- to locate the moc program and other Qt tools + \i MANPATH -- to access the Qt man pages + \i LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- for the shared Qt library + \endlist + + This is done like this: + + In \c .profile (if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh), add the + following lines: + +\code + QTDIR=/usr/local/qt + PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH + MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH + + export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH +\endcode + + In \c .login (in case your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following lines: + +\code + setenv QTDIR /usr/local/qt + setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$PATH + setenv MANPATH $QTDIR/man:$MANPATH + setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH +\endcode + + After you have done this, you will need to login again, or + re-source the profile before continuing, so that at least \c $QTDIR + is set. The installation will give an error message and not + proceed otherwise. + + On AIX set LIBPATH and on HP-UX set SHLIB_PATH instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. + + Note that the SGI MIPSpro o32 and Sun WorkShop 5.0 targets are no + longer supported as of Qt 3.3. + +\i Install your license file as \c $HOME/.qt-license. + For the free edition and evaluation version, you do not need a license + file. + +\i Compile the Qt library, and build the example programs, + the tutorial and the tools (e.g. \link designer-manual.book Qt + Designer\endlink) as follows. + + Type: +\code + ./configure +\endcode + + This will configure the Qt library for your machine. Note that + GIF support is turned off by default. Run \c{./configure -help} + to get a list of configuration options. Read \c PLATFORMS for a + list of supported platforms. + + To create the library and compile all examples and the tutorial: +\code + make +\endcode + If you have problems, see + \l{http://www.trolltech.com/platforms/}. + +\i In very few cases you may need to run \c /sbin/ldconfig or something + similar at this point if you are using shared libraries. + + If you have problems running the example programs, e.g. messages like +\code + can't load library 'libqt.so.2' +\endcode + you probably need to put a reference to the qt library in a + configuration file and run \c /sbin/ldconfig as root on your system. + And don't forget to \c set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as explained in 2) above. + +\i The online HTML documentation is installed in \c /usr/local/qt/doc/html/ + The main page is \c{/usr/local/qt/doc/html/index.html}. + The man pages are installed in \c{/usr/local/qt/doc/man/}. + The documentation is also accessible using \link assistant.book Qt + Assistant\endlink. +\endlist + +You're done. Qt is now installed. + +*/ + +/*! \page install-win.html + +\title Installing Qt/Windows + +The Qt/Windows distribution is distributed as a self-extracting archive +with a built-in installer. Just follow the installation wizard. + +*/ +*/ + +/*! \page install-mac.html + +\title Installing Qt/Mac + +You may need to be logged in as root, depending on the permissions of +the directories where you choose to install Qt. + +\list 1 +\i Unpack the archive if you have not done so already: + +\code + cd /Developer + gnutar xzf qt-mac-version.tar.gz +\endcode + + This creates the directory /Developer/qt-\e version containing the + files from the main archive. + + Rename qt-\e version to qt (or make a symlink): + +\code + mv qt-version qt +\endcode + + The rest of this file assumes that Qt is unpacked in \c /Developer/qt. + +\i Set some environment variables in the file \c .profile (or \c .login, + depending on your shell) in your home directory. Create the + file if it is not there already. + + \list + \i QTDIR -- the directory in which you're building Qt + \i PATH -- to locate the moc program and other Qt tools + \i MANPATH -- to access the Qt man pages + \i LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- for the shared Qt library + \endlist + + This is done like this: + + In \c .profile (if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh), add the + following lines: + +\code + QTDIR=/Developer/qt + PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH + MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH + DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH + + export QTDIR PATH MANPATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH +\endcode + + In \c .login (in case your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following lines: + +\code + setenv QTDIR /Developer/qt + setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$PATH + setenv MANPATH $QTDIR/man:$MANPATH + setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH +\endcode + + After you have done this, you will need to login again, or + re-source the profile before continuing. + +\i If you have the commercial edition of Qt, install your license + file as \c $HOME/.qt-license. + +\i Compile the Qt library, and build the example programs, + the tutorial and the tools (e.g. \link designer-manual.book Qt + Designer\endlink) as follows. + + Type: +\code + cd $QTDIR + ./configure +\endcode + + This will configure the Qt library for your machine. Note that + GIF support is turned off by default. Run \c{./configure -help} + to get a list of configuration options. + + To create the library and compile all examples and the tutorial: +\code + make +\endcode + If you have problems, see + \l{http://www.trolltech.com/platforms/}. + +\i Once you have built Qt, it is ready to use. If Qt has not been + configured with the -static option, then in order to be able to + launch Qt applications from the Finder you must place the relevant + libraries in a directory where they can be found. We recommend + making these symbolic links (if you have configured Qt with -thread + please change the libqt below with libtqt-mt): + +\code + ln -sf $QTDIR/lib/libqt.3.dylib /usr/lib + ln -sf $QTDIR/lib/libtqui.1.dylib /usr/lib +\endcode + + You may need to have 'administrator' access to do this, (in which + case, precede each command with \c sudo', e.g. \c{sudo ln -s ...}). If + you use sudo you'll be prompted for the administrator password. + + If you do not have administrator access, or you would prefer to do + a user install (rather than system install) of the libraries you + can do (if you have configured Qt with -thread please change the libqt + below with libtqt-mt): + +\code + ln -sf $QTDIR/lib/libqt.3.dylib $HOME/lib + ln -sf $QTDIR/lib/libtqui.1.dylib $HOME/lib +\endcode +\endlist + +That's all! Qt is now installed. Qt's documentation can be read with +Qt Assistant or by any web browser; the contents page is +\c $QTDIR/doc/html/index.html. + +*/ |