Re: [Texmacs-dev] Static builds of Qt-TeXmacs

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:40:20PM +0100, François Poulain wrote:
> Le Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:08:26 +0100,
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> > In order to completely switch to the Qt version, it would be nice to
> > distribute GNU/Linux versions of TeXmacs on our website which work on
> > most GNU/Linux distributions.  In the past, I managed to build such
> > a static binary distribution for the X11 version (using 'make
> > STATIC_TEXMACS'), on an old computer with RedHat.  However, we have
> > been unsuccessful so far to build a similar static binary
> > distribution for the new Qt version.
> > 
> > It would be extremely helpful if someone on this list managed to
> > build such a static binary and give us the recipe; it seems that
> > one should carefully pick a reference GNU/Linux distribution,
> > as well as the versions of gcc, Qt and all other required
> > dependencies (Guile, Freetype, etc.).  I almost got everything
> > to work under Redhat 9, with gcc 4.3.7 and Qt 4.7,
> > but some problems remained.
> 
> May be, you and Denis could post here your recipes. Perhaps reviewing
> them will be a good starting point.

Here is what I did for Redhat 9.0:

----- Install base system

1) Manual installation RedHat 9.0.
   Do _not_ install OpenOffice

2) Log in as root, go to /usr/local/src and do

        export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

3) Download and install mpfr-2.3.0 (with --prefix=/usr/local)

4) Download and install make-4.0

5) Download gcc-core-4.3.6 and gcc-g++-4.3.6,
   configure with --prefix=/usr/local-gcc-4.3.6,
   build and install (do _not_ compile other compilers from gcc). Do

        export PATH=/usr/local-gcc-4.3.6/bin:$PATH
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local-gcc-4.3.6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

6) Download and install freetype-2.4.0 (again with --prefix=/usr/local)

7) Download and install fontconfig-2.5.0

8) Download and install expat-2.0.0

9) Download and install qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.1 using

    ./configure -static -release -nomake demos -nomake examples -nomake tools

10) Download and install guile-1.8.8


----- Optionally install subversion

1) Download and install sqlite-autoconf-3080100

2) Download and install apr-1.5.0 and apr-util-1.4.3

3) Download and install openssl-1.0.0c

4) Download and install subversion-1.8.4


----- Install TeXmacs

1) In src/makefile, add -lexpat option after -lfontconfig:
   ... -lfontconfig -lexpat ...

2) Set environment variable 'export LD_BIND_NOW=true'

3) Re-execute 'make STATIC_TEXMACS' before relaunching 'texmacs'