XForms Version 1.0.93 This is the Free Software distribution of the XForms Library, a graphical user interface toolkit for X Window Systems. It should work under X11 R4, R5 & R6. XForms is free software. It is licensed under the GNU LGPL (Lesser General Public License) version 2.1. See the file COPYING.LIB for the gory details. What's new? ----------- XForms 1.0.93 is a version in preparation for XForms 1.1.0. While it is labeled as a "development version" we believe that it per- forms correctly and has less bugs than older versions. For more information, read the file ChangeLog. Getting XForms -------------- The XForms homepage is accessible at http://xforms-toolkit.org/ The sources can be downloaded from the project page at http://www.nongnu.org/xforms/ See the "Download Area" on that page. On this page you should select the file named 'xforms.latest_stable.tar.gz' (which will point to the latest stable release, including bug-fixes that may have become necessary) to download the sources - unless you're prepared to take part in testing the "bleeding edge" versions that have a name containing '-preX' (where X is some number), indicating that it is a pre-release on the way to a new stable release. Keeping in touch ---------------- There is a mailing list for XForms. To subscribe (or unsubscribe) go to http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xforms-development or send an email to xforms-development-request@nongnu.org with a subject line consisting of just 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe'. To use the mailing list, send your message to xforms-development@nongnu.org Remember your message will be sent to many people. Please DO NOT send subscribe/unsubscribe messages to the list, send it to xforms-request@nongnu.org The archive of the mailing list can be found at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/xforms-development/ Messages sent to the mailing list before August 2009 are at http://xforms-toolkit.org/old-archive/ Compiling XForms ---------------- You should be able to compile XForms on any 'reasonable' flavour of unix. XForms relies on some other libraries, namely * libX11 * libXpm, version 4.7 or newer. * libjpeg, 6.0b or newer. * libGL (optional) You will find generic installation instructions common to all autoconf-based packages in the file INSTALL. In general, all it takes to compile and install XForms is ./configure make make install There are some features that you may want to control: o --disable-gl that makes sure that gl support is not built even if you have proper GL libraries installed. o --enable-demos that adds "demos/" to the list of directories to build. It contains various program demonstrating the use of the XForms library. For more complicated cases, ./configure takes the following specific flags: o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where XForms will find extra libraries (Xpm, jpeg...) it needs. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several directories, separated by colons. o --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY that gives the place where XForms will find headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several directories, separated by colons. o --with-extra-prefix[=DIRECTORY] that is equivalent to --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used. o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3. o --disable-optimization - you can use this to disable compiler optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some compilers, but XForms applications will run more slowly. o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to debug problems in XForms. The default is to have debug information for development versions and prereleases only. o --enable-bwc-bs-hack enables some workarounds for incompatibilities that may keep very old programs using XForms from working correctly. Please only use as a last resort. Moreover, the following generic configure flags may be useful: o --prefix=DIRECTORY specifies the root directory to use for installation. [defaults to /usr/local] o --enable-maintainer-mode enables some code that automatically rebuilds the configure script, makefiles templates and other useful files when needed. This is off by default, to avoid surprises. Note that the --with-extra-* commands are not really robust when it comes to use of relative paths. If you really want to use a relative path here, you can prepend it with "`pwd`/". If you do not like the default compile flags used (-g -O on gcc), you can set CFLAGS variable to other values as follows: ./configure CFLAGS='-O2' <other-options> Similarly, if you want to force the use of some specific compiler, you can give a value to the CC variable. The following option might be useful in desperate cases: o --enable-warnings that make the compiler output more warnings during the compilation. Opposite is --disable-warnings.
