MANUAL INSTALLATION of axohelp v. 1.2 and axodraw2 ================================================== A. Fully Manual Installation ---------------------------- Note: if you do not wish to use axodraw2 with pdflatex, xelatex, or lualatex, but will only use it with latex, then only the first step is needed. 1. Copy axodraw2.sty to a suitable directory for LaTeX style files. 2. Compile the axohelp program by a command line like gcc -o axohelp -Wall -O3 axohelp.c (The exact details of the command line depend on your operating system and which compiler you have installed for the C language.) 3. Move axohelp to a suitable directory for executables. 4. (Optional) Copy axodraw2-man.pdf to a suitable directory for LaTex package documentation. 5. (Optional) Copy axohelp.1 to a suitable directory for man pages. B. Using autoconf etc: --------------------- You can also make axohelp using the GNU utilities autoconf, automake and autoreconf (if these are installed). Doing this is enormous overkill for a program like axohelp with a single source file and with no need to make adjustments dependent on the operating system etc. Even so, we provide the files necessary for the use of autoconf and automake, since these are needed when the axodraw2 package is incorporated into TeXLive (which has an enormous automated build process). So here are the instructions for building with autoconf and automake. For these, it is assumed that the GNU utilities autoconf, automake and autoreconf are installed: As in Fully Manual Installation, but replace step 2 by 2'. Run autoreconf --install ./configure make Note that there are a couple of test scripts: axohelp.test, which gives a rudimentary test, and axohelp-big.test, which gives a comprehensive test on all axodraw2 objects used in the manual. **Warnings**: a. You could get a spurious failure of a test because of a mismatch between the line-endings of the test file and the file generated by axohelp (UNIX \n v. MS-Windows \r\n). b. You could also get spurious test failure because of differences in the effects of rounding error with your compiled axohelp and the one used on the test system.