A list of these external libraries can be found on the Graphviz source download page.
These libraries (either static or dynamic) and their interface header files must already be on your system. It's OK if you install your own copies of these packages, though you may need to tell make or configure where to find them. Run "configure --help" for details.
On most Linux distributions these packages are already installed or installable from packages included in the distribution. You might need to install some -devel packages to get the include header files. Also, some of these packages require other packages, so for sanity, you should use some automated install mechanism such as rpms or macports, or look for complete packages.
The recommended method for building graphviz from a downloaded source package is the usual:
./configure make make install
If you are building from Git sources, then you must have recent versions of "libtool", "automake", and "autoconf". Build with:
./autogen.sh ./configure make make install
If you are not building with GNU tools, then there are some tried-and-true old-style Makefiles that can be used instead. Details below.
The preferred image renderer is cairo, with support from pango for fonts. This handles various bitmap formats as well as svg, pdf and PostScript.
The generic raster driver is gd and it can be configured to generate GIF (no compression), PNG (lossless compression), JPEG (lossy compression), and wireless bitmap (WBMP) files. The compressors all need zlib. In the current build, we use a top-level config.h file that defines various symbols, such as:
HAVE_JPEG
HAVE_PNG
This file is typically generated by configure based on how you invoke it and what it finds on your system. If you don't enable the gd based drivers, graphviz will still have the printf style drivers for PostScript and SVG. (However, even these benefit from better text size estimation via Freetype, when it is available.)
1. (Recommended - requires gmake) Use configure generated by GNU autoconf. This comes with the source packages. This often works well on a vanilla Linux distribution with Tcl/Tk, freetype-devel and libjpeg already installed by root under /usr. It works OK with other versions of Unix, but some adjusting of command line arguments to configure may be needed. For Linux you can also just pick up the source tarball or RPMs here.
First, if you are using sources from Git, run "./autogen.sh" to generate the "configure" script. If you are using sources from graphviz-<version>.tar.gz this autogen.sh step should not be needed.
Next, run configure. For help on possible configure options, run:
./configure --help
For example, I use
./configure --prefix=$HOME/arch/sgi.mips3 \ --with-freetypeincludedir=$HOME/arch/$ARCH/include/freetype2 \ --with-freetypelibdir=$HOME/arch/$ARCH/lib \ --with-tcl=/usr/common/tcl8.3.3
Obviously you would change the pathnames to reflect your installation.
Note that the directory ${prefix}/include is automatically searched for headers, and ${prefix}/lib for libraries.
If you have problems with one or more of the optional script language bindings, they can be disabled with e.g. --disable-perl.
When configure is finished, it reports which optional packages were found and which Graphviz features are enabled. If some package or feature you expected is not shown as used, you may need to check the config.log file or configure.ac or configure files to see what went wrong. Usually, any problem can be resolved using environment variables or the command-line flags of configure.
Once configure has finished, complete the build with
gmake gmake install2. To avoid the use of configure and gmake, the source package comes with a collection of simple non-GNU makefiles. As above, you need the external packages to be installed somewhere. Then
See separate build notes for Microsoft Windows.
With some persistence you can likely get Graphviz to build on UWIN or Cygwin installed on Microsoft Windows. You will still need various third-party packages to enable all the Graphviz drivers. We haven't tried to build tcldot or webdot in win32.
We found that on some platforms (Solaris?) gd/dotneato and freetype MUST be compiled with the same C compiler (e.g. gcc, or the native cc). Otherwise there are are weird stack argument errors in the call to TT_Open_Face. I don't have time to try to figure out what's wrong.
--with-Xawincludedir=/usr/contrib/X11R6/include --with-Xawlibdir=/usr/contrib/X11R6/lib
Currently, Glen Low provides a full-featured port of Graphviz. Also, Ryan Schmidt maintains versions of Graphviz for macports.
We recommend using macports to install the desired third-party libraries. Once these have been installed, the standard build using configure and make works fine. The only caveat is that sometimes, an incompatible, non-GNU tool is picked up rather than the needed GNU version.
Compiling Smyrna for OS X, Snow Leopard (Amanda Stent)
Xcode:
First if you updated from Leopard you have to reinstall developer tools. No getting around it, I tried, you just have to do it.
Macports:
Then you have to uninstall and clean up the Macports ports, all of them. Take the opportunity to reinstall Macports itself. There are migration instructions on the web, but it's a little hairier than they make it out to be because some of the links (e.g. hs-ports) will not be there and you will have to get over those hurdles manually.
Briefly, to do a clean install of macports do:
sudo port -f uninstall installed sudo port clean --work --archive all and then new macports and then sudo port install the things you need now and possibly sudo port selfupdate and sudo port upgrade outdated at the endThen you have to install all the tools needed for Smyrna, glut, glade, etc., and all their dependencies. This takes days.
Now macports doesn't do glut separately. It's sneaky because if you say install glut, something will happen, but actually glut now comes with mesa. This will mess up your head. (The real meat of glut is part of the mesa package - ed.)
Graphviz:
Then you get your graphviz and you configure with --with-smyrna. I used the following:
configure --with-smyrna --with-glutincludedir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/mesa/7.6.1_1+hw_render/opt/local/include --with-glutlibdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/mesa/7.6.1_1+hw_render/opt/local/lib --prefix=/usr/local/share/graphviz(I use
configure --with-smyrna --with-glutincludedir=/opt/local/include --with-glutlibdir=/opt/local/lib- ed.)
On the webs they say to use -framework commandline option to gcc; however I couldn't figure out how to make this work with the makefile and configure file for graphviz.
Now, I got to a certain point and it grumbled about permissions and refused to go any further. So you may have to chmod in the source directory.
And I got to the point where it was building gv_perl.cpp and it refused to go any further. I got around this eventually by changing the call to XS to XSPROTO, thus obviating the need for XSUB.h (what does it do for you? nothing!).
And then it said it was done but when I went to run it it wouldn't start due to some missing template.dot so then you make clean, and make install again because by now you are confused as well.
And then it should work!
By the way making by sneakily cd'ing into the macosx folder and using the makefile labeled with your OS *does not work*.
To produce graphviz-(ver).tar.gz from GIT sources using cogito.
cg clone https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz.git
cd graphviz
or to update from GIT
cd graphviz
cg update
then
./autogen.sh
make dist
(Cogito & GIT are available from http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/
or as binary packages in Fedora-Extras )
To build source and binary rpms (results are left in /usr/src/redhat/ ):
rpm -ta graphviz-(ver).tar.gz
To build locally:
zcat graphviz-(ver).tar.gz | tar xfvo -
cd graphviz-(ver)
./configure
make
make install