1 Syntext Serna Free Edition build and install instructions.
5 1.1. Operating systems.
7 Serna Free Edition builds were tested on the following platforms:
9 a. Windows XP Service Pack 3
15 Serna build requires g++ 4.1+ compiler on Linux and
16 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express on Windows.
17 MacOS build requires g++ 4.0.x (installed with Xcode 3.1.2)
19 1.3. Tools and libraries
37 Since default Windows install does not include these tools, it's necessary to
38 install the following packages to successfully build and install Serna on Windows:
40 a. ActiveState Perl 5.x (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl)
41 b. Cygwin utilities (http://www.cygwin.com)
44 1. zip and unzip from Archive category
45 2. bison and flex from Devel category
46 3. patch from Utils category
48 c. Inno Setup 5 (http://www.jrsoftware.org)
49 d. Sun Java 1.6.x (http://java.sun.com)
51 Linux systems require X11, zlib and ncurses development libraries to build third-party
52 packages used by Serna. To generate RPM packages rpm and rpmbuild are needed.
56 2.1. Third-party libraries and tools.
58 Serna uses the following third-party packages:
60 a. ANTLR parser generator version 2.7.1
61 b. GNU Aspell version 0.50.5
62 c. IBM DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4
63 d. DocBook stylesheets version 1.68.1
64 e. Doxygen documentation generator version 1.5.1
65 f. GNU iconv library version 1.11
66 g. libxml2 version 2.6.27 - The XML C parser and toolkit
67 h. libxslt version 1.1.19 - XSLT support for libxml2
68 i. PyQt version 4.4.4 - Python bindings for Qt library
69 j. Python version 2.6.2
70 k. QScintilla For Qt 4 text editor version 2.4
71 l. Nokia Qt framework version 4.5.2
72 m. Qt property browser framework version 2.5
73 n. SIP - Python C/C++ Bindings Generator version 4.8.2
77 a. Unpack Syntext Serna distribution package.
78 b. Create 'packages' subdirectory in the '3rd' directory
79 c. Place third-party packages in the 'packages' subdirectory
81 Package archives that are platform independent:
85 DITA-OT1.4_fullpackage_bin.tar.gz
86 docbook-xsl-1.68.1.tar.bz2
87 doxygen-1.5.1.src.tar.gz
91 PyQt-x11-gpl-4.5.4.tar.gz
93 QScintilla-gpl-2.4.tar.gz
94 qtpropertybrowser-2.5-opensource.tar.gz
96 qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2.tar.bz2
98 Packages can be downloaded from Syntext website at
100 http://downloads.syntext.com/opensource
102 d. Run build.sh on Linux/MacOS or build.bat on Windows
104 Build produces installation packages that are placed
106 on Windows: dist\serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.exe
108 on Linux: rpm/RPMS/i686/serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.i686.rpm
110 on MacOS: build/serna/serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.dmg
114 Serna can be installed using standard installation methods for each OS
117 To run Serna on Windows it's required to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
118 Redistributable Package which can be downloaded from Microsoft
119 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf)