INSTALL

Basic Installation
==================

For more information specific to Hamlib, please read the README as well as
README.betatester and the first part of README.developer to see which
additional development packages are needed. This source code distribution is
autoconfiguring and you should be able to compile it and install it without
manual interventions such as editing Makefiles, configuration files, and so
on. These are generic instructions for people who are not familiar with
installing autoconfiguring software (along with some Hamlib-specific
information).

The simplest way to compile this package is to enter the source code
main directory and do the following:

  1. Configure the source code by typing:

        $ ./configure

     If you are planning to install the package into your home directory
     or to a location other than `/usr/local' then add the flag
     `--prefix=PATH' to `configure'. For example, if your home directory
     is `/home/username' and you would like to install it to a directory
     named 'local' you can configure the package to install itself
     there by invoking:

        $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local

     The configure script has several options to configure Hamlib.  See the
     Optional Features section below.

     While running, `configure' prints some messages telling you which
     features it is checking for.

  2. Compile the package by typing:

        $ make

     Running `make' takes a while.  Since Hamlib is a package, now is the
     time to go get a cup of coffee.

  3. Some packages are bundled with self-tests for source-code verification.
     If this package includes such tests, you can optionally run them after
     compilation by typing

        $ make check

  4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
     documentation. Type `make uninstall' to undo the installation.

     N.B.  Be aware that Super User (root) privileges will be required to
     install to /usr/local or any other system location outside of your home
     directory.  Many distributions include the `sudo' command which will
     permit you to install Hamlib after entering your password.  Otherwise
     you will need to log in as 'root'.

     During installation, the following files go to the following directories:
        Executables          -> /prefix/bin
        Libraries            -> /prefix/lib
        Public header files  -> /prefix/include
        Man pages            -> /prefix/man/man?
        Info files           -> /prefix/info
        Doc files            -> /prefix/share/doc/<prog name>
        Share files          -> /prefix/share/<prog name>
     where `prefix' is either `/usr/local' or the PATH that you specified
     in the `--prefix' flag.

     If any of these directories do not presently exist, they will be
     created on demand.

     If you are installing in your home directory make sure that
     `/home/username/bin' is in your path. If you're using the bash shell
     add these lines at the end of your .bashrc file:

        PATH="/home/username/bin:${PATH}"
        export PATH

     If you are using csh or tcsh, then use this line instead:

        setenv PATH /home/username/bin:${PATH}

     By prepending your home directory to the rest of the PATH you can
     override systemwide installed software with your own custom installation.

  5. After installation you may need to update the ld.so.cache as the
     installation files are placed in /usr/local/lib by default.  On most
     systems this is easily accomplished by running the `ldconfig' command
     as the superuser (root).  The following line may need to be added to
     /etc/ld.so.conf:

        /usr/local/lib

     Most modern distributions have an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory where
     local configuration can be made. Later versions of Debian and
     derivatives have a file named 'libc.conf' in this directory.  The
     contents of libc.conf are:

        # libc default configuration
        /usr/local/lib

     If your system does not have such a file, one will need to be created
     and then `ldconfig' will need to be run as the root user so that
     applications using the Hamlib libraries can find them.

     Now `ldconfig' can be run.

     While the programs built along with Hamlib will probably work fine
     without running `ldconfig', experience has shown that precompiled
     binaries like Fldigi will not be able to find a locally compiled
     libhamlib.so.2 without updating the ld.so.cache.

  6. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
     source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
     files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
     a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  The
     `configure' program will need to be run again to recompile Hamlib.

  7. You can optionally generate the Doxygen documentation files:

        cd doc
        make doc

     The HTML output files are provided for binary releases on the hamlib.org
     web site.

  8. Finally, if you wish to remove Hamlib, run `make uninstall' as
     superuser (root), unless Hamlib was installed into your home directory,
     from the Hamlib source directory.  This will work unless `make distclean'
     has been run.

Compiler configuration (Advanced usage)
=======================================

   The `configure' shell script is responsible for choosing and configuring
the compiler(s).

The following options allow you to specify whether you
want to enable or disable various debugging mechanisms:

`--enable-warnings'
      Make the compilers very picky about warnings. Try this whenever you
      write new code since it may catch a few bugs. This is not active by
      default because all too often warnings can be too picky and scare
      the end-user.

All programs are compiled with optimization level 2 by default (-O2).
Occasionally that confuses the debugger when code is inlined. To disable
optimization and enable debugging, set the shell environment variables
CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS. On the bash shell, you can do this
like this:

  $ export CFLAGS="-g"
  $ export CXXFLAGS="-g"

On the tcsh shell, use the `setenv' command instead:

  % setenv CFLAGS "-g"
  ...etc...

For other shells, please consult your shell's documentation.

Similarly, you can increase the optimization level by assigning these
variables to "-g -O3".

Depending on what languages the package uses, some of these options may
or may not be available. To see what is available, type:
    % sh ./configure --help

About the configure script
==========================

   The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
`config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
(useful mainly for debugging `configure').

   If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
be considered for the next release.  If at some point `config.cache'
contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.

   The file `configure.ac' is used to create `configure' by a program
called `autoreconf'.  You only need `configure.ac' if you want to change
it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.  This
project uses a custom `autogen.sh' for running autoreconf in a developer's
checkout of Hamlib from a source repository.

Advanced installation options.
==============================

   The `configure' script also understands the following more advanced
options, to handle situations for which `--prefix' alone is not sufficient.

   You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.

   In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
you can set and what kinds of files go in them.

   If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.

Optional Features
=================

   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The
`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
package recognizes.

   For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.

MS Windows
==========
- Debian system with mingw32msvc cross-compiler

    ./configure --with-included-ltdl --host=i586-mingw32msvc

- Mingw compiler under Cygwin
    CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
    ./configure --with-included-ltdl --host=i686-pc-mingw32

- Cygwin
    Native Cygwin requires no special options besides regular ones.

N.B. See the 'build-win32.sh' script and its associated README.build-win32 file
in the 'scripts' directory for complete details on build a Win32 binary.

Hamlib Specific Features
========================

    Various Hamlib features requiring the presence of third party packages are
enabled with options beginning with '--with-'.  At this time these options
are:

  --with-xml-support      build rigmem with XML support [default=no]
  --without-readline      disable readline in rigctl/rotctl [default=yes]
  --without-cxx-binding   do not build C++ binding and demo [default=yes]
  --with-perl-binding     build perl binding and demo [default=no]
  --with-perl-inc         directory containing perl includes
  --with-python-binding   build python binding and demo [default=no]
  --with-tcl-binding      build Tcl binding and demo [default=no]
  --with-tcl=PATH         directory containing tcl configuration (tclConfig.sh)

    Optional features that may require specialized hardware are:

  --disable-html-matrix   do not generate HTML rig feature matrix (requires
                          libgd-dev) [default=check]
  --disable-winradio      do not build winradio backend [default=yes]
  --enable-usrp           build USRP backend [default=no]

Bindings notes
--------------

   Should you encounter any problem with the build of the C++ binding,
you can disable this optional part by passing `--without-cxx-binding'
to the configure script (may happen under MacOSX).

    Note that the Perl, Python, and TCL bindings are disabled by default so
they will need to be specifically enabled for language binding support (this
has no effect on rigctld/rotctld).  You may get a make error (which means it
will quit before compilation is complete) if the
--with-[perl|python|tcl]-binding option(s) are given and the Swig package is
not installed.

    Perl and Python bindings should be installed into a 'configure' runtime
discovered location under the default prefix.

    The TCL binding will be installed into $(libdir)/tcl/Hamlib (default).  If a
non-default --prefix is passed to 'configure', the 'lappend' line in tcltest.tcl
script will need to be modified accordingly so the script can load the Hamlib
package.  As TCL doesn't seem to have a "standard" location for additional
packages and since there seemed to be no common location among distributions,
this path was chosen abitrarily.  Any patches to improve installation path
discovery of local packages are welcome.

    When running 'make uninstall' the installed files for the Python and TCL
modules are removed.  The Perl files will remain due to a design decision
of the Perl MakeMaker module.  Installed Perl binding files will need to be
removed manually.