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Revision: 1.18
Committed: Sun Aug 15 18:59:05 2004 UTC (19 years, 9 months ago) by root
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1 root 1.16 CONFIGURE OPTIONS
2     General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
3     hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use the
4     ./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself,
5     so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always
6     report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann
7     <rxvt@schmorp.de>.
8    
9     --enable-everything
10     Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure
11     --help". Note that unlike other enable options this is order
12     dependant. You can specify this and then disable options which this
13     enables by *following* this with the appropriate commands.
14    
15     --enable-xft
16     Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
17     are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
18     them, you don't pay for them.
19    
20     --with-codesets=NAME,...
21 root 1.18 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups. These
22     codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core fonts,
23     they are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will make
24     your binary bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't increase
25     memory usage unless you use an X11 font requiring one of these
26     encodings.
27 root 1.16
28 root 1.18 all all available codeset groups
29 root 1.16 cn common chinese encodings
30     cn_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
31     jp common japanese encodings
32     jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
33     kr korean encodings
34    
35     --enable-xim
36     Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
37     alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
38     up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
39    
40     --enable-unicode3
41     Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
42     (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
43     per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
44 pcg 1.10 extra characters, but Xft does.
45 root 1.16
46     Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
47     even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
48     to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
49     switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
50     (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
51    
52     --enable-combining
53     Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
54     characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
55     accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
56     using precomposited characters when available or creating new
57     pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
58    
59     Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
60     characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use
61     the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448).
62     With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also
63     enable storage of characters >65535.
64    
65 pcg 1.10 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
66 root 1.16 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
67     be used.
68    
69     --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
70     When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
71     (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
72     --disable-fallback.
73    
74     --with-res-name=NAME
75     Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
76     reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
77    
78     --with-res-class=CLASS
79     Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
80     when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
81 pcg 1.8 rxvt.
82 root 1.16
83     --enable-utmp
84     Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
85     of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
86    
87     --enable-wtmp
88     Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
89     start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
90     option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
91    
92     --enable-lastlog
93     Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
94     at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
95     also be specified.
96    
97     --enable-xpm-background
98     Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
99    
100     --enable-transparency
101     Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
102     transparency to the term.
103    
104     --enable-fading
105     Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
106    
107     --enable-tinting
108     Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
109    
110     --enable-menubar
111     Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
112     dynamic locale switching currently).
113    
114     --enable-rxvt-scroll
115     Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
116    
117     --enable-next-scroll
118     Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
119    
120     --enable-xterm-scroll
121     Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
122    
123     --enable-plain-scroll
124     Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
125     the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
126     years.
127    
128     --enable-half-shadow
129     Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
130     only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
131    
132     --enable-ttygid
133     Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
134     system uses this type of security.
135    
136     --disable-backspace-key
137     Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
138     do it.
139    
140     --disable-delete-key
141     Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
142     it.
143    
144     --disable-resources
145     Remove all resources checking.
146    
147     --enable-xgetdefault
148     Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
149     version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
150     then ~/.Xresources.
151    
152     --enable-strings
153     Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
154     various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
155     been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
156     in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
157     systems).
158    
159     --disable-swapscreen
160     Remove support for swap screen.
161    
162     --enable-frills
163     Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
164     to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
165     want to disable this.
166    
167 root 1.17 --enable-iso14755
168     Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
169     Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
170     support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
171    
172 root 1.16 --enable-linespace
173     Add support to provide user specified line spacing between text
174     rows.
175    
176     --enable-keepscrolling
177     Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
178     mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
179    
180     --enable-mousewheel
181     Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
182    
183     --enable-slipwheeling
184     Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
185     accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
186     requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
187    
188     --disable-new-selection
189     Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
190    
191     --enable-dmalloc
192     Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
193     http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
194     or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
195     compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
196    
197     You can only use either this option and the following (should you
198     use either) .
199    
200     --enable-dlmalloc
201     Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
202     <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
203    
204     --enable-smart-resize
205     Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
206     hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
207     is closest to a corner of the screen.
208    
209     --enable-256-color
210     Add support for 256 colours rather than the base 16 colours.
211    
212     This option will likely go away in the future. Speak up if you don't
213     want this.
214    
215     --enable-cursor-blink
216     Add support for a blinking cursor.
217    
218     --enable-pointer-blank
219     Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
220    
221     --with-name=NAME
222     Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: urxvt,
223     resulting in urxvt, urxvtd etc.). Specify --with-name=rxvt to
224     replace rxvt.
225    
226     --with-term=NAME
227     Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
228     "rxvt")
229    
230     --with-terminfo=PATH
231     Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
232     to PATH.
233    
234     --with-x
235     Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
236    
237     --with-xpm-includes=DIR
238     Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
239    
240     --with-xpm-library=DIR
241     Look for the XPM library in DIR.
242    
243     --with-xpm
244     Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
245 pcg 1.7