Re: Martin Sievers Ubuntu package. If you add it to your Software Sources new builds of TeXworks? will be automatically installed with Update Manager. System > Administration > Software Sources > Third Party Software > Add... > APT line: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/martin-texberatung/ubuntu hardy main

Under Ubuntu 8.10, your building suggestion is right..... Using it right now, great work! Thanks.

Under OpenSUSE 11.1, I had to install the following devel packages:

gcc make hunspell-devel poppler-devel libqt4-devel libpoppler-qt4-devel

Issuing qmake TeXworks?.pro and then make left me with a working binary. Works great (minus a couple of annoyances I'll file a bug report about).

To clarify: "gcc" and "make" are needed to compile pretty much anything: they are not specific to TeXworks?. Also, I literally mean "gcc" and "make", not e.g. "gcc-devel".

BRILLIANT :) texworks is now my main latex editor... going to use it for my master thesis

On Ubuntu Intrepid you also need subversion (sudo apt-get install subversion). Otherwise, all spot on.

You can move the built texworks binary to another Ubuntu Hardy machine if it has

sudo apt-get install libpoppler-qt4-2 libhunspell-1.1-0 libdbus-1-3

Build on Mac OS X seems difficult to me. Not even got to the step of building poppler library: building fontconfig-2.60 has been a failure with thousands of errors, the leading error messages being

In file included from fcftint.h:26,

from fcfreetype.c:48:

../fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:27:22: error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory ../fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:28:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME> In file included from fcftint.h:26,

from fcfreetype.c:48:

../fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:37: error: syntax error before ‘FcFreeTypeCharIndex?’ ...

(this is with Mac OS X 10.5.7, the the process to build on this platform was found in  issue 107 )

So, either a more detailed description for building on Mac OS X or a prebuilt Max OS X binary of the most recent svn is needed. Many thanks for looking into this.

The Fedora 10 directions are failing for me at the "make" with the error: make: g++: Command not found Indeed, it's not there. Before make, at some point, you have to: yum install gcc-c++ However, while it builds, it will not launch giving the error: QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine.

Ahhh! It worked. I did all of my installations, compilation as root. ./texworks wouldn't run as root, but ran fine from my regular account.

I've built an rpm for use with SLED 11 and openSUSE 11.1. I've also created a script which automates the process of creating the rpm in order to make it easy to update.

Details can be found at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/texworks

Downloaded and compiled without problems on Ubuntu 9.04. Subversion is not installed by default on a fresh Ubuntu installation so you may want to add that to the install list for aptitude.

Online I listened to the TUG talk on Texworks and there was a feature to move to a point in the pdf by clicking on the tex text and vice versa. Can't find this in the version of Texworks I compiled.

> there was a feature to move to a point in the pdf by clicking on the tex text and vice versa. > Can't find this in the version of Texworks I compiled.

This feature (Synctex support) depends on TeX-binaries generating .synctex-files. The TeXlive? 2007 binaries that come with Ubuntu 8.10 (and, I believe, 9.4) don't; you'll have to install TeXlive? 2008 which is available from the TUG website.

Stefan Löffler's installation went smoothly under Jaunty, and TeXworks? has run bug-free so far. This is a great project---well done!

Slackware

1.build and install the hunspell.download from http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/

tar xf hunspell-1.2.8.tar.gz
cd hunspell-1.2.8
./configure && make && make install

2.get and make the TeXWorks

svn checkout http://texworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ texworks-read-only
cd texworks-read-only
qmake
make
./texworks

on slackware 13.0 is OK.

@wtx358: Thanks for the report. How about dependencies (qt, gcc, make, etc.)? Which are needed, and how does one get them?

when I install slackware 13.0,I full install the "d" and "l",so gcc-4.3.3,qt4,make,Poppler,libdbus are all install expect hunspell. When I exec qmake,it tell me not found the hunspell.so I install the hunspell,and then all is OK.

On Slackware 13.0, there is something strange. After following the instructions, the executable complains that it does not find libhunspell-1.2.so.0. It is in /usr/local/lib, but I can't figure out how to tell texworks to find it...

Sorry, a simple matter of LD_LIBRARY_PATH...

Alternatively, I think there are linker flags you can add to make it record the library path in the executable, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not required. (I think it's called -rpath, IIRC.)

just found this one: https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/ppa

In Ubuntu, I just downloaded the Debian package compiled by Stefan Löffler and it works very well (Karmic). Thanks for that.

RedHat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS) 5.4

Installing TeXworks on RedHat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS) 5.4.

Warning: This involves re-inventing the wheel, so be warned. Why? Because, RHEL 5.4 has qt-3.3 (on KDE 3.5.4) and TeXworks requires Qt >= 4.3. So, the trouble starts there... (see the discussion thread here.)

Another restriction that I'll impose is lack of administrative access. So, all the installation will be done in user writeable directories.

The process that I am going to describe is broadly the following (C&I = compile and install):

1. Install Texlive-2009 in ~/usr/local/texlive - I'll not elaborate on this.
2. C&I Qt 4.5.3 in ~/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.3/
3. C&I poppler 0.12.2 in ~/usr/local/
4. C&I hunspell 1.2.8 ~/usr/local/
5. Compile TeXworks (trunk) in ~/softwares/texworks-trunk/

Any newer versions of these softwares should work too. I've not tested them though.

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc, replacing USER by your username. You may want to logout and log back in after this. Some of these paths are unneccesary, so feel free to prune them judiciously.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/USER/lib:/home/USER/lib64:/home/USER/usr/lib/:/home/USER/usr/lib64:/home/USER/usr/local/lib:/home/USER/usr/local/lib64:/home/USER/usr/local/include
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/USER/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
PATH=/home/USER/bin:/home/USER/usr/bin:/home/USER/usr/local/bin:/home/USER/usr/local/sbin:/home/USER/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/USER/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=/home/USER/usr/share/man:/home/USER/usr/local/share/man:/home/USER/share/man:/home/USER/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/man:/home/USER/.kde/share/man:$MANPATH
INFOPATH=/home/USER/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH
DICPATH="/home/USER/usr/local/share/hunspell"

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH PATH MANPATH INFOPATH DICPATH

1. Texlive-2009

I'll not elaborate on this here. See the documentation here.

2. Qt 4.5.3

You can try the 4.6 version from here (I haven't attempted this yet) or you can get the 4.5.3 from their archive here.

$ cd $HOME/softwares
$ wget ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.3.tar.gz
$ tar xf qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.3.tar.gz .
$ cd qt-z11-opensource-src-4.5.3

Then do (you may save it as a script and then run):

# not needed the first time
$ make confclean

# just the needed parts of Qt:
$ ./configure -opensource -prefix /home/USER/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.3 -no-phonon -no-webkit -no-accessibility -no-3dnow -nomake demos -nomake examples -nomake docs -nomake translations
$ make
$ make install

3. Poppler 0.12.2

0.12.3 was released recently (24 Dec 2009), I haven't tried it yet. Older releases are here.

$ cd $HOME/softwares
$ wget http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.12.3.tar.gz
$ tar xf poppler-0.12.3.tar.gz .
$ cd poppler-0.12.3

Then save the following as a script (in poppler-0.12.3 dir) and run:

#!/bin/bash
QT4DIR=$HOME/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.3
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$QT4DIR/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
PATH=$QT4DIR/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QT4DIR/include:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# I use KDE thus all these --disable switches (try disabling libopnejpeg as well):
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/local --disable-cairo-output --disable-poppler-glib --disable-gdk --disable-gtk-test --disable-abiword-output

echo
read -p "Will do make now. Hit Enter (or Ctrl-C to abort)."
make

echo
read -p "Will do make install now. Hit Enter (or Ctrl-C to abort)."
make install

You may want to comment make and make install and run them manually.

4. Hunspell 1.2.8

Get the sources from here and extract them in ~/softwares/

$ cd ~/softwares/hunspell-1.2.8
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/local
$ make && make install

Now extract the relevant (say, en_US) dictionaries:

$ cd $HOME/softwares/
$ wget http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/en_US.zip
$ mkdir -p $HOME/usr/local/share/hunspell && cd $HOME/usr/local/share/hunspell
$ unzip $HOME/softwares/en_US.zip 

You may want to extract the hyphenation files here as well.

5. TeXworks (trunk)

The latest stable version 0.2.3 works analogously.

$ cd $HOME/softwares
$ svn checkout http://texworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ texworks-trunk
$ cd texworks-trunk
$ cp -a TeXworks.pro{,.orig}

Now edit TeXworks.pro in you favorite editor. Inside the unix:!macx {....} code block modify QMAKE_CXXFLAGS (~ line 82) from

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -DTW_HELPPATH=\\\"/usr/local/share/texworks-help\\\"

to

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -DTW_HELPPATH=\\\"/home/USER/usr/local/share/texworks-help\\\"

Immediately below this, inside the linux-g++ {...} code block modify INCLUDEPATH (~ line 88) from

INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/qt4/QtDBus

to

INCLUDEPATH += /home/USER/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.3/include/QtDBus

Save and keep a copy outside the svn dir as well!

$ cp -a TeXworks.pro{,.my}

$ cd src
$ cp -a TWUtils.cpp{,.orig}

Now edit TWUtils.cpp. Around line 85, change libpath from

libPath = "/usr/share/myspell/dicts";

to

libPath = "/home/USER/usr/local/share/hunspell";

See this thread for some discussion.

Save and keep a copy outside the svn dir as well!

$ cp -a TWUtils.cpp{,.my}

Now, save the following as a script and run:

#!/bin/bash
QT4DIR=$HOME/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.3
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$QT4DIR/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
PATH=$QT4DIR/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QT4DIR/include:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

qmake

# Make sure TeXworks.pro and src/TWUtils.cpp has been patched as mentioned above.

read -p "Will do make now. Hit Enter (or Ctrl-C to abort)."
make

Once done, hopefully, if everything went OK, you can run ./texworks.

Stefan has put the scripts for building under Ubuntu at https://code.launchpad.net/~texworks/packaging/trunk.

TW 0.3.0 snapshot rpms for Fedora 13/14 and EPEL6 are available now at http://cheeselee.fedorapeople.org/texworks-testing/

In openSUSE 11.4, I needed to install the following packages to build texworks 0.4.0:

libpoppler-devel libpoppler-qt4-devel hunspell-devel

(There are other things such as libqt4-devel which will be automatically included when you install libpoppler-qt4-devel)

Then

qmake
make
sudo install

installed Texworks without any problem.

In addition, to install Python plugin, modify the python version in TWPythonPlugin.pro in plugins-src/TWPythonPlugin directory:

unix:!macx { # on Unix-ish platforms we should rely on pkgconfig
	# Python prior to 3.x doesn't register properly with pkg-config
	INCLUDEPATH	+= /usr/include/python2.6/
	LIBS		+= -lpython2.6

to

unix:!macx { # on Unix-ish platforms we should rely on pkgconfig
	# Python prior to 3.x doesn't register properly with pkg-config
	INCLUDEPATH	+= /usr/include/python2.7/
	LIBS		+= -lpython2.7

Then

qmake
make
sudo make install

I've just managed to build TeXworks? on a Zenwalk 7.0 box. In my default Zenwalk install, the only missing component is Qt4, which can be installed using the Netpkg utility. So what I did was:

Install Qt4 using Netpkg (qt-4.7.0_7abde40)
svn checkout http://texworks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ texworks-read-only 
cd texworks-read-only 
qmake
make

Voila! TeXworks? is ready for use!

Hope this helps people trying to build TeXworks? on Zenwalk!