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Revision: 1.18
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1 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 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
28 all all available codeset groups
29 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 extra characters, but Xft does.
45
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 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
66 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 rxvt.
82
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 --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 --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