| 1 | |
| 2 | Installing libpng |
| 3 | |
| 4 | On Unix/Linux and similar systems, you can simply type |
| 5 | |
| 6 | ./configure [--prefix=/path] |
| 7 | make check |
| 8 | make install |
| 9 | |
| 10 | and ignore the rest of this document. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | If configure does not work on your system and you have a reasonably |
| 13 | up-to-date set of tools, running ./autogen.sh before running ./configure |
| 14 | may fix the problem. You can also run the individual commands in |
| 15 | autogen.sh with the --force option, if supported by your version of |
| 16 | the tools. To be really sure that you aren't using any of the included |
| 17 | pre-built scripts, you can do this: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode |
| 20 | make maintainer-clean |
| 21 | ./autogen.sh |
| 22 | ./configure [--prefix=/path] [other options] |
| 23 | make |
| 24 | make install |
| 25 | make check |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Instead, you can use one of the custom-built makefiles in the |
| 28 | "scripts" directory |
| 29 | |
| 30 | cp scripts/makefile.system makefile |
| 31 | make test |
| 32 | make install |
| 33 | |
| 34 | The files that are presently available in the scripts directory |
| 35 | are listed and described in scripts/README.txt. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Or you can use one of the "projects" in the "projects" directory. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Before installing libpng, you must first install zlib, if it |
| 40 | is not already on your system. zlib can usually be found |
| 41 | wherever you got libpng. zlib can be placed in another directory, |
| 42 | at the same level as libpng. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | If you want to use "cmake" (see www.cmake.org), type |
| 45 | |
| 46 | cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path |
| 47 | make |
| 48 | make install |
| 49 | |
| 50 | If your system already has a preinstalled zlib you will still need |
| 51 | to have access to the zlib.h and zconf.h include files that |
| 52 | correspond to the version of zlib that's installed. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | You can rename the directories that you downloaded (they |
| 55 | might be called "libpng-x.y.z" or "libpngNN" and "zlib-1.2.5" |
| 56 | or "zlib125") so that you have directories called "zlib" and "libpng". |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Your directory structure should look like this: |
| 59 | |
| 60 | .. (the parent directory) |
| 61 | libpng (this directory) |
| 62 | INSTALL (this file) |
| 63 | README |
| 64 | *.h |
| 65 | *.c |
| 66 | CMakeLists.txt => "cmake" script |
| 67 | configuration files: |
| 68 | configure.ac, configure, Makefile.am, Makefile.in, |
| 69 | autogen.sh, config.guess, ltmain.sh, missing, libpng.pc.in, |
| 70 | libpng-config.in, aclocal.m4, config.h.in, config.sub, |
| 71 | depcomp, install-sh, mkinstalldirs, test-pngtest.sh |
| 72 | contrib |
| 73 | gregbook |
| 74 | pngminim |
| 75 | pngminus |
| 76 | pngsuite |
| 77 | visupng |
| 78 | projects |
| 79 | visualc71 |
| 80 | vstudio |
| 81 | scripts |
| 82 | makefile.* |
| 83 | *.def (module definition files) |
| 84 | etc. |
| 85 | pngtest.png |
| 86 | etc. |
| 87 | zlib |
| 88 | README |
| 89 | *.h |
| 90 | *.c |
| 91 | contrib |
| 92 | etc. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | If the line endings in the files look funny, you may wish to get the other |
| 95 | distribution of libpng. It is available in both tar.gz (UNIX style line |
| 96 | endings) and zip (DOS style line endings) formats. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | If you are building libpng with MSVC, you can enter the |
| 99 | libpng projects\visualc6 or visualc71 directory and follow the instructions |
| 100 | in README.txt. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | Otherwise enter the zlib directory and follow the instructions in zlib/README, |
| 103 | then come back here and run "configure" or choose the appropriate |
| 104 | makefile.sys in the scripts directory. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | Copy the file (or files) that you need from the |
| 107 | scripts directory into this directory, for example |
| 108 | |
| 109 | MSDOS example: copy scripts\makefile.msc makefile |
| 110 | UNIX example: cp scripts/makefile.std makefile |
| 111 | |
| 112 | Read the makefile to see if you need to change any source or |
| 113 | target directories to match your preferences. |
| 114 | |
| 115 | Then read pnglibconf.dfa to see if you want to make any configuration |
| 116 | changes. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | Then just run "make" which will create the libpng library in |
| 119 | this directory and "make test" which will run a quick test that reads |
| 120 | the "pngtest.png" file and writes a "pngout.png" file that should be |
| 121 | identical to it. Look for "9782 zero samples" in the output of the |
| 122 | test. For more confidence, you can run another test by typing |
| 123 | "pngtest pngnow.png" and looking for "289 zero samples" in the output. |
| 124 | Also, you can run "pngtest -m contrib/pngsuite/*.png" and compare |
| 125 | your output with the result shown in contrib/pngsuite/README. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | Most of the makefiles will allow you to run "make install" to |
| 128 | put the library in its final resting place (if you want to |
| 129 | do that, run "make install" in the zlib directory first if necessary). |
| 130 | Some also allow you to run "make test-installed" after you have |
| 131 | run "make install". |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Further information can be found in the README and libpng-manual.txt |
| 134 | files, in the individual makefiles, in png.h, and the manual pages |
| 135 | libpng.3 and png.5. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Using the ./configure script -- 16 December 2002. |
| 138 | ================================================= |
| 139 | |
| 140 | The ./configure script should work compatibly with what scripts/makefile.* |
| 141 | did, however there are some options you might need to add to configure |
| 142 | explicitly, which previously was done semi-automatically (if you didn't edit |
| 143 | scripts/makefile.* yourself, that is) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | CFLAGS="-Wall -O -funroll-loops \ |
| 146 | -malign-loops=2 -malign-functions=2" ./configure --prefix=/usr/include \ |
| 147 | --with-pkgconfigdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig --includedir=/usr/include |
| 148 | |
| 149 | You can alternatively specify --includedir=/usr/include, /usr/local/include, |
| 150 | /usr/include/libpng%NN%, or whatever. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | If you find that the configure script is out-of-date or is not supporting |
| 153 | your platform properly, try running autogen.sh to regenerate "configure", |
| 154 | "Makefile.in", and the other configuration files. Then try configure again. |
| 155 | |