Redhat 8.0 install instructions for Lx-Viewer 0.97d

Dependancies

To compile and install Lx-Viewer you will need the following packages installed on your system:

gcc
gcc-c++
qt
qt-devel
glibc-devel
kern-headers
libstdc++-devel

You can query if they are installed with

rpm -qa | grep -i gcc

You will also need to download

Opendwg toolkit and viewkit libraries from http://www.opendwg.org
Lx-Viewer sources from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30996

Compiling

Add a link in /usr/lib from "qt" to "qt-3.0.5" (the default redhat 8.0 qt directory)

ln -s qt-3.0.5 qt

Then in /etc/profile (or in ~/.profile) put:

QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Place the open dwg libraries ad2.a and ad3.a in the viewer/OpenDWG directory

Then to compile, go to your lx-viewer directory and use

./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt