5 Copyright (c) the Notion team 2010-2011.
6 Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2009.
11 Building and installing
12 -----------------------
16 https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Development
18 1. Get the source code. Make sure all submodules are present and up to date.
19 git clone git://notion.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/notion/notion
24 2. In addition to the standard C library headers and the GNU toolchain, you
25 will need the following tools and libraries for building Notion.
27 * Lua 5.1 interpreter and header files <http://www.lua.org/>
28 * Xlib header files <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/>
29 * libXext header files <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXext/>
30 * libSM header files <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libSM/>
31 * gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
33 If you want to build the mod_xinerama and mod_xrandr module, which provide
34 enhanced multihead support, you will further need the following libraries.
36 * Xinerama header files <https://sourceforge.net/projects/xinerama/>
37 * XRandR header files <http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR/>
39 On a Debian based system, these dependencies are provided by the following
41 build-essential lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libsm-dev gettext
42 libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
44 3. If the default build settings don't suit you, review system-autodetect.mk
45 and either override values in a newly added system-local.mk or make changes
46 directly to system-autodetect.mk
48 4. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
49 some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
51 5. Run `make`. Note that `make` here refers to GNU make which is usually
52 named `gmake` on systems with some other implementation of make as
55 6. Run `make install`, as root if you set `$PREFIX` in `system.mk` to a
56 directory that requires those privileges.
58 YOU SHOULD NOT SKIP THIS STEP unless you know what you are doing. Notion
59 will refuse to start if it can not find all the necessary uncorrupt
60 configuration files either in `$PREFIX/etc/notion/` or in `~/.notion/`.
62 7. How to best set up `startx` or whatever to start Notion instead of your
63 current window manager depends on your system's setup. A good guess
64 is creating or modifying an executable shell script `.xsession` in your
65 home directory to start Notion. This should usually (but not always) work
66 if you're using some X display/login manager. If `~/.xsession` does not
67 help and you're not using a display manager, modifying `~/.xinitrc` or
68 creating one based on your system's `xinitrc` (wherever that may be;
69 use `locate`) may be what you need to do. Note that unlike `.xsession`,
70 a `.xinitrc` should usually do much more setup than simply start a few
71 programs of your choice.
73 Please see the file `RELNOTES` for additional release-specific installation
74 and configuration notes.
77 Some optional installation steps
78 --------------------------------
80 1. The F5 and F6 keys expect to find the program `run-mailcap` to select
81 a program to view a file based on its guessed MIME type. Unless you are
82 using Debian, most likely you don't have it, but any other similar
83 program (or just plain old text editor) will do as well -- just modify the
84 bindings in `cfg_notioncore.lua`. Of course, if you don't want to use the
85 feature at this time or never, you may simply skip this step. If you want
86 to use `run-mailcap`, it can be found from the following address, as a
87 source tarball as well:
89 <http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/mime-support.html>
91 2. Notion supports caching known man-pages in a file for faster man-page
92 completion in the F1 man page query. To enable this feature, you must
93 periodically run a cronjob to build this list. To create a system-wide
94 man page cache, run `crontab -e` (might vary depending on platform) as
95 root and enter a line such as follows:
97 15 05 * * * $SHAREDIR/ion-completeman -mksyscache
99 Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk`. This example
100 runs daily at 05:15, but you may modify the run times to your needs;
101 see the crontab manual.
103 If you can't or do not want to build a system-wide man page cache, run
104 `crontab -e` as your normal user and replace `-mksyscache` with
105 `-mkusercache` above. The cache file will be `~/.notion/mancache`.
107 It may also be useful to run `ion-completeman` with the suitable
108 `-mk*cache` argument once manually to build the initial cache.
110 If the `MANPATH` environment variable is not set on your system and it
111 does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
112 sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment
113 variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages.
119 For help on modifying Notion's configuration files, PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENT
120 "Configuring and extending Notion with Lua" available from the Notion web page,
121 listed at the top of this file.
124 Questions, comments, problems?
125 ------------------------------
127 If the available documentation does not answer your question, please
128 post it to the mailing list. Details can be found on the Notion web page
129 listed at the top of this file.
135 Notion was written by the Notion team, based on Ion which was written by Tuomo
138 The dock module was written by Tom Payne and Per Olofsson.
140 `utils/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
141 1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz. See the file for details.
143 The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on seems to have been originally
144 written by Tomohiro Kubota, but see the file for details.
146 Various (minor) patches have been contributed by other individuals
147 unlisted here. See the mailing list archives and the darcs source
148 repository history at <http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/>. For translators
149 see the individual `.po` files in `po/`.
151 The code in `de/unicode' (producing `de/precompose.c') is taken from
154 See `libtu/README` for code by others integrated into libtu.