From b983b285cc4f0627a1f72c9d6c510047af0ad116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael R Sweet Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:36:02 +0000 Subject: Lots of documentation fixes, and added a new image for the Fluid chapter. git-svn-id: file:///fltk/svn/fltk/trunk@244 ea41ed52-d2ee-0310-a9c1-e6b18d33e121 --- documentation/intro.html | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/intro.html') diff --git a/documentation/intro.html b/documentation/intro.html index ffcf35603..488b8eb3a 100644 --- a/documentation/intro.html +++ b/documentation/intro.html @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ terms of the GNU Library General Public License. Contrary to popular belief, it can be used in commercial software! (Even Bill Gates could use it.)

What Does "FLTK" Mean?

- FLTK was originally designed to be compatable with the Forms Library + FLTK was originally designed to be compatible with the Forms Library written for SGI machines. In that library all the functions and structures started with "fl_". This naming was extended to all new methods and widgets in the C++ library, and this prefix was taken as @@ -110,8 +110,30 @@ Kit". the default of no options and then compile everything.

FLTK uses GNU autoconf to configure itself for your UNIX platform. The main things that the configure script will look for are the X11, -OpenGL (or Mesa), and JPEG header and library files. Make sure that -they are in the standard include/library locations.

+OpenGL (or Mesa), and JPEG header and library files. If these cannot be +found in the standard include/library locations you'll need to define the +CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS environment +variables. For the Bourne and Korn shells you'd use:

+ +For C shell and tcsh, use: + +By default configure will look for a C++ compiler named CC, c++, +g++, or gcc in that order. To use another compiler you need +to set the CXX environment variable: + +The CC environment variable can also be used to override the default +C compiler, which is used for a few FLTK source files.

You can run configure yourself to get the exact setup you need. Type "./configure <options>", where options are:

@@ -184,7 +206,7 @@ reporting bugs]
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