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1 | Installation instructions |
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| 4 | Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig | |
| 5 | repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are | |
| 6 | available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named | |
| 7 | 'release'. | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | To install tig simply run: | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | $ make install | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | To install documentation run: | |
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| 15 | $ make install-docs | |
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17 | Edit the Makefile if you need to configure specific compiler or linker flags. |
| 18 | On FreeBSD for example the c library does not support the iconv interface and | |
| 19 | to compile tig you need to append `-L/usr/local/lib -liconv` to `LDLIBS` and | |
| 20 | `-I/usr/local/include` to the `CFLAGS` variable. | |
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22 | The following tools and packages are needed: |
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| 24 | `-------------------------------`---------------------------------------------- | |
| 25 | Tool Description | |
| 26 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 27 | git-core Tig is just a frontend for git. | |
| 28 | ncurses Be sure to also have development files \ | |
| 2bc4f7bd | 29 | installed. Usually they are available in a \ |
| f4657f00 | 30 | separate package ending with `-dev`. |
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31 | iconv If iconv is not provided by the c library \ |
| 32 | you need to change the Makefile to link it \ | |
| 33 | into the binary. | |
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34 | asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto For building documentation. (Optional) |
| 35 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |