+
+ Compiling Mup for UNIX
+
+ 1. Compiling Mup for UNIX
+
+ Mup has been compiled successfully on a wide variety of
+ UNIX-type systems, including Linux, UNIX SV_R4, and Solaris.
+ We cannot guarantee that it will work on your system, but it
+ generally ports with no more than minimal changes.
+
+ Download the mup53src.tar.gz Mup source package file and
+ unpack it:
+ gunzip mup53src.tar.gz
+ tar xf mup53src.tar
+
+ Alternately, you can download the RPM format Mup source
+ package and install it as you would any RPM package:
+ rpm -i mup-5.3-0.src.rpm
+
+ Installing the source package will create a mup-5.3
+ directory. Go to that directory.
+ cd mup-5.3
+ There is a simple makefile provided, which should work on
+ most systems, so all you need to do is:
+ make install
+ You can edit the makefile if necessary for your environment.
+ Comments at the top of the makefile describe suggested
+ modifications if it doesn't work for you as is. Note that
+ if you want to install in a system directory (like the
+ default location /usr/bin) you will need to be root for the
+ installation step. Otherwise building Mup requires no
+ special privileges.
+
+ If for some reason the makefile doesn't work, you can
+ compile Mup and any of the optional utility programs
+ (mupdisp, mkmupfnt, and mupmate) manually. For compling Mup
+ itself, generally, something like the following will work:
+ cd mup
+ cc -o mup *.c -lm
+ For most UNIX-like compilers, the "-o mup" will cause the
+ program to be put into a file called "mup," and the "-lm"
+ will cause the math library to be included (That's a lower-
+ case letter "el" not a one). You may also want to use other
+ options. For example, for many compilers "-O" (that's a
+ capital letter "oh" not a zero) will run the optimizer, and
+ "-s" will strip the resulting program to save disk space.
+
+ Copy mup into your $HOME/bin or a similar directory in your
+ $PATH.
+ cp mup $HOME/bin/mup
+
+ If you already have a means of displaying PostScript files,
+ such as gv, ghostview, or pageview, you can simply pipe the
+ output of Mup into your display program. Or you can use the
+ mupdisp program in connection with Ghostscript, which is
+ free. You can download Ghostscript from
+ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost, or
+ http://www.ghostscript.com/. We've found that on some
+ systems, Ghostscript compiles with lots of warnings, but it
+ works okay anyway.
+
+ Once you have installed Ghostscript, compile the mupdisp
+ program for displaying Mup output on screen. See the comment
+ at the top of mupdisp.c for suggestions on compiler options
+ to try.
+
+ Copy mupdisp into your $HOME/bin or similar directory.
+ cp mupdisp $HOME/bin/mupdisp
+
+ The mupdisp program works on the AT386 $TERM type under UNIX
+ x86 or under X-windows. If you have a different display
+ type, you may need to write your own display functions. In
+ most cases, you'll only need to write 6 short functions, and
+ you can use the examples in at386.c, dos.c, or xterm.c for a
+ general template of the functions. You will also need to
+ update dispttyp.h and init.c appropriately.
+
+ If you want to supply your own fonts to override the
+ standard Mup fonts, you can compile the mkmupfnt program:
+ cd mkmupfnt cc -o mkmupfnt mkmupfnt.c
+
+ The Mupmate program provide a menu-driven interface on top
+ of Mup. It is built on top of the FLTK library, so you will
+ need to have the FLTK development package. You can get this
+ from http://www.fltk.org Get the latest version in the 1.1.x
+ series (we built with 1.1.7); don't get from the 2.x series.
+ Mupmate is written in C++, so you will need a C++ compiler,
+ such as g++. See the top level makefile for typical
+ compilation options. FLTK normally comes with its own copies
+ of libjpg, libpng, and libz (compression) libraries, but it
+ will usually work with the generic versions of those
+ libraries as well. You will also need standard X-windows
+ libraries: libX11, libXext, and libXpm.
+
+ A shell script called "mupprnt" is included for printing Mup
+ files using Ghostscript. Copy mupprnt to your $HOME/bin or
+ other appropriate directory.
+ cp mupprnt $HOME/bin/mupprnt
+ You will need to set the GS_DEVICE shell variable to the
+ proper value for your printer. If you don't know what to set
+ it to, the comment at the top of mupprnt may help, or check
+ your Ghostscript documentation. You could also just use the
+ print option on your PostScript viewer such as gv.
+
+ Once you have everything installed, you can remove the .tar
+ file if you wish, to free up disk space.
+ rm mup53src.tar
+
+ Please let us know if you need any workarounds for compiling
+ on your system. We want to try to make Mup as portable as
+ possible.
+
+ 2. Getting Mup running for the first time
+
+ Once you get Mup to compile successfully, try running it.
+ The first time you run Mup, it should give you a message
+ indicating Mup is shareware, and asking you to read the Mup
+ license agreement. It will then tell you to create a
+ particular file. By creating this file, you agree to abide
+ by the Mup license, and Mup will be turned on for normal
+ operation.
+
+ Try running Mup on the sample input files (sample.mup and
+ star.mup ). Verify that the output you get matches the
+ corresponding sample output files (sample.ps and star.ps ).
+ You will find differences in some of the numbers, comments,
+ timestamp, filenames, etc, but otherwise, in general the
+ PostScript output you get should be similar to the sample
+ output files provided, and if you display them, the results
+ should look pretty much identical.
+
+ If Mup fails to run properly on the sample files, either
+ your system has uncovered a bug that we haven't seen yet or
+ your machine has some incompatibility. You can turn on
+ debugging, by running with the -dN option, where N is a
+ bitmap of debugging flags, to help pinpoint where bugs may
+ be. The Mup User's Guide explains the bits of the debugging
+ flags. If you get stuck, you may contact us at
+ support@arkkra.com and we will try to help.
+
+ If you need to make any changes in order to get Mup to
+ compile and run successfully, please let us know. If you
+ find anything confusing, we'd like to know that too. We
+ want Mup to be as solid, portable, useful, and easy to use
+ as possible.
+
+ Also, please let us know if there are ways we can improve
+ the Mup documentation.
+
+ If you receive messages beginning with "internal error" this
+ usually indicates a program bug, so we'd like to know about
+ them. An exception is when you get a message about being
+ unable to allocate memory when there really isn't any memory
+ left. If you get other internal errors, please send us a
+ copy of an input file and any other information that may
+ help us reproduce the problem, so we can try to fix it in
+ the next Mup release.
+
+ Mup is shareware. Once you get Mup up and running, you can
+ try it out for free to decide whether you want to use it or
+ not. If you like it, execute
+ mup -r
+ to get a copy of the shareware registration form. The
+ registration fee is $29. See the license file for license
+ details.
+
+ Provide feedback (bugs reports, comments, suggestions,
+ questions) to: support@arkkra.com
+
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+
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