Graphviz Build Instructions for Windows
(Graphviz versions > 2.14)
To simplify our build process, especially as most Windows users only
want a binary version of the software, the Graphviz build for Windows
now uses uwin,
an open-source Unix layer on top of Windows. In this
environment, we can use essentially the same tools and process
used on Unix. In particular, we do not have to maintain multiple build
files.
To build Graphviz:
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Install the third-party libraries. This is most easily done by installing
a Windows binary verion of GTK 2.0 or later.
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Download the Graphviz source package:
Go to
http://www.graphviz.org/Download_source.php
and copy over either the stable release graphviz-VERSION.tar.gz
or the development source package graphviz-working.tar.gz.
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Unwrap the package:
You can use, for example,
gunzip < graphviz-working.tar.gz | tar xf -
Let $ROOT be the directory in which you stored the Graphviz source.
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Configure the package for your system:
cd $ROOT
configure --disable-shared --enable-static --with-mylibgd --disable-swig --without-x --without-tclsh --with-codegens --disable-ltdl
You will probably want to provide additional arguments to
configure to indicate where you have installed GTK, where
you want the results installed (--prefix) and which
additional optional packages you want built. Run configure --help
to see the available set of arguments.
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Build Graphviz:
make install
Presumably, a similar approach would work with Cygwin or Mingw.
The following are some notes by
Steve Roush
describing how he
made a static build of the libraries on Mingw.
here is the command line I used to build "simple.c" (dot.demo/simple.c),
after adding a few lines based on
https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/graphviz-interest/2006q2/003586.html
X=simple;gcc -v -I'/usr/local/include/graphviz' -I'/usr/local/include'
-o $X -O $X.c -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/graphviz -lgvc -lgraph
-lpathplan -lcdt -lgvplugin_core -lgvplugin_dot_layout
-lgvplugin_neao_layout -lgvplugin_gd -lgvplugin_pango -lgvc -lpathplan
If you
desire to build directly using Visual Studio or other non-Unix-based
environment, you will need to derive the necessary information from the
supplied Makefiles.
(2.14 >= Graphviz versions >= 2.3)
We build Graphviz on Windows using the MS Visual C++ 6.0 compiler
only. The simplest way to build the software from source on Windows is as
follows:
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Download the Windows source package:
Go to
http://www.graphviz.org/Download_windows.php
and copy over either the release or development source package.
At present, these can also be found as
http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/ARCHIVE/graphviz-win.tgz and
http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/CURRENT/graphviz-win.tgz, respectively.
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Unwrap the package:
If you have Unix tools available, you can use
gunzip < graphviz-win.tgz | tar xf -
If not, double click on the file and WinZip should start up and let you
store all of the files into a directory.
Let $ROOT be the directory in which you stored the Graphviz source.
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Add the third-party libraries:
The versions should be at least the ones indicated.
You can download the files from
http://www.graphviz.org/Misc/third-party.zip.
Unzip the package in the $ROOT directory; this will create a subdirectory called
third-party.
Or you can obtain the libraries yourself, and install
them in $ROOT\third-party
Also note that these libraries come with the binary release.
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Build the software in one of the following ways:
- Run the script $ROOT\build.bat while in the $ROOT
directory. You'll first want to check
that the vc variable points to your local installation of visual C.
Obviously, this should be run in a DOS command window.
- The file $ROOT\ws\graphviz.dsw
is the main workspace for the Graphviz libraries and graph drawing programs.
The file
$ROOT\ws\tools.dsw provides the workspace for the
additional Graphviz tools. Double-clicking on these files will open the
workspaces using the MS Visual Studio, from which you can use the Build
menu item to create the various libraries and programs.
Note that we have avoided all dependencies (i.e., there are no .dep files)
because we found they tended to include absolute pathnames.
If necessary, follow the order used in build.bat to be safe.
- If you have a Unix environment, with a real ksh, run the script
$ROOT\wmake.sh
after setting the PATH, LIB and INCLUDE shell variables to the paths where
the Visual C programs are installed on your machine, and the associated
library and include file directories.
Once built, all of the libraries and programs will be found in
either the Release or Debug subdirectory of the corresponding source
directory. If you wish to install
the software somewhere, edit the file $ROOT\install.bat to
set the variable root to be the absolute pathname of the
directory where you want
the software installed, and then run the script $ROOT\install.bat
from the $ROOT directory.
If you want to change source files, you can just do it and rebuild.
If, however, you want to add new files or projects, you will
have to redo the makefiles or scripts.
If you have problems or questions, please contact us at
erg@research.att.com.