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Revision: 1.20
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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 --enable-font-styles
21 Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The
22 fonts can be set manually or automatically.
23
24 --with-codesets=NAME,...
25 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (eu, vn
26 are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets).
27 These codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core
28 fonts, they are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will
29 make your binary bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't
30 increase memory usage unless you use an X11 font requiring one of
31 these encodings.
32
33 all all available codeset groups
34 zh common chinese encodings
35 zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
36 jp common japanese encodings
37 jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
38 kr korean encodings
39
40 --enable-xim
41 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
42 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
43 up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
44
45 --enable-unicode3
46 Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
47 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
48 per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
49 extra characters, but Xft does.
50
51 Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
52 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
53 to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
54 switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
55 (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
56
57 --enable-combining
58 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
59 characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
60 accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
61 using precomposited characters when available or creating new
62 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
63
64 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
65 characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use
66 the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448).
67 With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also
68 enable storage of characters >65535.
69
70 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
71 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
72 be used.
73
74 --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
75 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
76 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
77 --disable-fallback.
78
79 --with-res-name=NAME
80 Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
81 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
82
83 --with-res-class=CLASS
84 Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
85 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
86 rxvt.
87
88 --enable-utmp
89 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
90 of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
91
92 --enable-wtmp
93 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
94 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
95 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
96
97 --enable-lastlog
98 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
99 at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
100 also be specified.
101
102 --enable-xpm-background
103 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
104
105 --enable-transparency
106 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
107 transparency to the term.
108
109 --enable-fading
110 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
111
112 --enable-tinting
113 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
114
115 --enable-menubar
116 Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
117 dynamic locale switching currently).
118
119 --enable-rxvt-scroll
120 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
121
122 --enable-next-scroll
123 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
124
125 --enable-xterm-scroll
126 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
127
128 --enable-plain-scroll
129 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
130 the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
131 years.
132
133 --enable-half-shadow
134 Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
135 only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
136
137 --enable-ttygid
138 Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
139 system uses this type of security.
140
141 --disable-backspace-key
142 Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
143 do it.
144
145 --disable-delete-key
146 Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
147 it.
148
149 --disable-resources
150 Remove all resources checking.
151
152 --enable-xgetdefault
153 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
154 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
155 then ~/.Xresources.
156
157 --enable-strings
158 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
159 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
160 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
161 in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
162 systems).
163
164 --disable-swapscreen
165 Remove support for swap screen.
166
167 --enable-frills
168 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
169 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
170 want to disable this.
171
172 --enable-iso14755
173 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
174 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
175 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
176
177 --enable-keepscrolling
178 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
179 mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
180
181 --enable-mousewheel
182 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
183
184 --enable-slipwheeling
185 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
186 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
187 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
188
189 --disable-new-selection
190 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
191
192 --enable-dmalloc
193 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
194 http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
195 or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
196 compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
197
198 You can only use either this option and the following (should you
199 use either) .
200
201 --enable-dlmalloc
202 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
203 <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
204
205 --enable-smart-resize
206 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
207 hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
208 is closest to a corner of the screen.
209
210 --enable-cursor-blink
211 Add support for a blinking cursor.
212
213 --enable-pointer-blank
214 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
215
216 --with-name=NAME
217 Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: urxvt,
218 resulting in urxvt, urxvtd etc.). Specify --with-name=rxvt to
219 replace rxvt.
220
221 --with-term=NAME
222 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
223 "rxvt")
224
225 --with-terminfo=PATH
226 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
227 to PATH.
228
229 --with-x
230 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
231
232 --with-xpm-includes=DIR
233 Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
234
235 --with-xpm-library=DIR
236 Look for the XPM library in DIR.
237
238 --with-xpm
239 Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
240