# graphviz build notes

## External packages

The full build requires external libraries that you must obtain elsewhere. Most, if not all of these are optional and configure will arrange for reduced functionality if an external library is not found. Newer versions of these libraries should be fine, if not, please let us know.

- TCL http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.3.5-src.tar.gz
- TK http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8.3.5-src.tar.gz
- PNG http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz
- ZLIB http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
- FREETYPE http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.1.3.tar.gz
- EXPAT http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-1.95.5.tar.gz
- JPEG ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
- GETTEXT http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.5.tar.gz
- ICONV http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz

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.

## Abreviated Build Instructions (GNU tools)

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.

## Detailed Build Instructions

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

## Build tools for Unix

You have several choices.

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.

## Build tools for win32

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:

1. Open the WSH script file $ROOT/windows/winmake.wsf using a text editor and set the "vc" variable to the location of MS VC++ on your machine.

2. Download the third-party libraries/header files from http: //www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/dist/third-party.zip. Unzip the file in $ROOT directory.

3. Execute the $ROOT/windows/winmake.wsf file by double-clicking on the file within Windows Explorer.

4. If the script throws errors, you'll need to open the graphviz project in $ROOT/makearch/win32/static/graphviz.dsw using the MS Visual Studio. Switch to the "File View" within the MS Visual Studio and trigger project builds individually.

5. Follow step 4 for building tools in $ROOT/makearch/win32/static/tools.dsw.

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

    	nmake CC=ncc  MSWIN32==1

(the nativepp thing seems fixed in UWIN 2.25).

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...

- Add extra fluff to globals.h to pull in astwin32.h but #undef _UWIN when compiling with CC=ncc.

- MSVC 5.0 C compiler may die when -O is invoked on neato/splines.c; this required nmakefile CC.NOOPTIMIZE.

- Get cygwin versions of: zlib, png, jpeg-6b (required minor source mods), freetype.1.3.1.

- Build zlib by `configure CC=ncc --prefix=/home/users/north/src/usr` then `gmake install`

- Build png by copying scripts/makefile.gcc to makefile and editing slightly then gmake install

- Build jpeg same as zlib: `gmake install-lib install-headers`

- Needed to hand-craft a lib/lib/z to go with our libz.a in order to not unintentionally pull in /usr/lib/ast.lib (because of mistakenly binding the lib/lib/z that goes with /usr/lib/z.lib).

- We haven't tried to build tcldot or webdot in win32.

## 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.

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.

## 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.)

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.

## 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