These libraries (either static or dynamic) and their interface header files must already be on the system. It's OK if you install your own copies of these packages, though you may need to tell make or configure where to find them. Run "configure --help" for details.
On most Linux distributions these packages are already installed or installable from packages included in the distribution. You might need to install some -devel packages to get the include header files.
If you are using GNU tools, the recommended method for building graphviz is the usual:
./configure make make install
If you are building from CVS sources, then you will need to have "libtool", "automake", and "autoconf" installed, then build with:
./autogen.sh ./configure make make install
If you are not building with GNU tools, then there are some old-style Makefiles that can be used instead. Details below.
There are a handful of preprocessor defines that control the image driver configuration. The generic driver is gd and it can be configured to generate GIF (no compression), PNG (lossless compression), JPEG (lossy compression), and Windows BMP files. The compressors all need zlib. In the current build we have a top-level config.h file that defines various symbols, such as:
HAVE_JPEG
HAVE_PNG
1. (Recommended for Linux) Use configure generated by GNU autoconf. This often works well on a vanilla Linux distribution with Tcl/Tk, freetype-devel and libjpeg already installed by root under /usr. Might work OK with Solaris, too. Otherwise some adjusting of command line arguments to configure will be needed. For Linux you can also just pick up the source tarball or RPMs here.
First, if you are using sources from CVS, run "./autogen.sh" to generate the "configure" script. If you are using sources from graphviz-<version>.tar.gz this autogen.sh step should not be needed.
Next, run configure. For help on possible configure options, run:
./configure --help
For example, I use
./configure --prefix=$HOME/arch/sgi.mips3 \ --with-freetypeincludedir=$HOME/arch/$ARCH/include/freetype2 \ --with-freetypelibdir=$HOME/arch/$ARCH/lib \ --with-tcl=/usr/common/tcl8.3.3
Obviously you would change the pathnames to reflect your installation.
Note that the directory ${prefix}/include is automatically searched for headers, and ${prefix}/lib for libraries.
2. (Recommend for other Unix platforms.) As above, you need the external packages to be installed somewhere. Then use old make by editing Config.mk for your architecture and installation directory. Check settings in makearch/$(ARCH). See below for further notes on individual platforms.
Do the usual:
make make install make clean
3. (Recommended for Dave Korn and Elefteris Koutsofios) Use AT&T/Lucent nmake.
You have to install the AST tools first.
Then edit Makeargs in the top source directory appropriately and nmake install. Some fiddling with X11 libs is probably necessary to compile 'lefty'. This usually involes editing $INSTALLROOT/lib/lib/Xt or X11 (or less portably, edit nmakefile). You may also need...
export PACKAGE_tcl=/where/tcl/is/installed
When nmake works, it's absolutely great, but it's usually some work to get the environment right including the actions of tools like iffe (the AST equivalent of what GNU configure does). If you're Lefty or Dave Korn, you already knew that.
Currently we build graphviz on Windows using the MS Visual C++ compiler only. The project and makefiles can be found in both the CVS tree and the source distribution package in the $ROOT/windows directory. ($ROOT refers to the directory where the source tree has been installed.)
Follow the step-by-step procedure given below:
If you're ambitious, we have also used nmake from AT&T UWIN to build for both the UWIN environment and the native win32 platform.
export nativepp=-1(the nativepp thing seems fixed in UWIN 2.25).
nmake CC=ncc MSWIN32==1
Obviously you need to have native versions of zlib, libpng, jpeg and freetype. (See step 2 above. Or build them yourself; see notes below.)
If you're running UWIN, of course, you can always just go
with either the old binaries of graphviz for UWIN
(from Dave Korn's UWIN
site ) or build graphviz as a UWIN program using nmake or gmake.
More win32 notes...
We found that on some platforms (Solaris?)
gd/dotneato and freetype MUST be compiled with the
same C compiler (e.g. gcc, or the native cc).
Otherwise there are are weird stack argument errors in
the call to TT_Open_Face. I don't have time to try
to figure out what's wrong.
There could still be problems with case-sensitive names,
though we believe we've fixed all the ones we know about.
It's weird that Mac OSX declares lrand48() but it's not
defined in any of the standard system library functions.
Unix platform-specific build notes
SGI
The default Irix libjpeg is obsolescent. We need at least
version 62. It wasn't at all clear to me where to get sources for
this - eventually I found the source for v61 and patches for v62
using a search engine.
Solaris
Put /usr/ccs/bin in PATH
HP-UX
The X11 package must include /usr/contrib/X11R6
as well as the base stuff.
Apple Mac OS/X
dot and neato build with old make. (Didn't bother with tcldot.)
GNU style building
To produce graphviz-(ver).tar.gz from CVS sources.
cvs checkout graphviz
cd graphviz
./autogen.sh
make dist
To build source and binary rpms (results are left in /usr/src/redhat/ ):
rpm -ta graphviz-(ver).tar.gz
To build locally:
zcat graphviz-(ver).tar.gz | tar xfvo -
cd graphviz-(ver)
./configure
make
make install