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KDiff3-Readme ============= Author: Joachim Eibl (joachim.eibl@gmx.de) Copyright: (C) 2002-2004 by Joachim Eibl KDiff3-Version: 0.9.86 KDiff3 is a program that - compares and merges two or three input files or directories, - shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), - provides an automatic merge-facility and - an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts - has support for KDE-KIO (ftp, sftp, http, fish, smb) - and has an intuitive graphical user interface. Do you want help translating? Read the README in the po-subdirectory! Licence: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2, June 1991 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA For details see file "COPYING". Exception from the GPL: As a special exception, the copyright holder Joachim Eibl gives permission to link this program with the Qt-library (commercial or non-commercial edition) from Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), and he permits to distribute the resulting executable, without including the source code for the Qt-library in the source distribution. Requirements & Installation: Version 0.9.86 provides special support for KDE3, but it can also be built without KDE3 if the Qt-libraries are available. (I also test and use the program under Windows.) You always need - kdiff3-0.9.86.tar.gz For building the KDE3-version - KDE>=3.1 and QT>=3.1-libraries. (QT>=3.2 is recommended) - gcc, g++ with version >=3.2 For building the Qt-only-version - QT-libraries (version >=3.1.0). (www.trolltech.com) - for Un*x: gcc, g++ with version >=3.2 - for Windows: VC6 / VC7.1 Installation for KDE3: - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR). If it doesn't contain the correct path, type export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt (e.g. /usr/lib/qt3) - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.86 and type - ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 (your KDE3 directory here) - (make clean) (Required if you already compiled once.) - make (Run compilation) - make install (You must have root-rights for this step.) For details also see the generic instructions in file "INSTALL". If some icons are not visible or don't seem right, probably the prefix was wrong. Check where your KDE3 installation is located and use that directory with the prefix-option of configure. This command should tell you: kde-config --prefix For SuSE and most distributions the prefix usually is /opt/kde3. For Redhat/Fedora and Mandrake the prefix usually is /usr. For a local installation, that doesn't need root rights try - ./configure --prefix=$KDEHOME ($KDEHOME probably is the same as $HOME/.kde) - make - make install (Installs everything in $KDEHOME. No root rights required.) - Run $KDEHOME/bin/kdiff3. ($KDEHOME/bin is probably not in your path.) Warning: If a local installation and a global installation exist, the local menu, toolbar, help etc. will be used, even if you start the global executable. To avoid confusion, better remove the local version then. (rm -R `find $KDEHOME -name "*kdiff3*" -not -name "kdiff3*rc"`) Upgrading KDiff3 for KDE: If you already installed an older version or KDiff3 and you have the impression, that the new version doesn't work as described, you should try to remove all files belonging to KDiff3 before reinstalling. Try this search command to locate KDiff3-related files: find $HOME/.kde /usr /opt -iname "*kdiff3*" (Will take a few minutes.) Installation for the Qt-only-platforms for Un*x: (for Qt >=3.1.0) - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR). If it doesn't contain the correct path, type export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt (e.g. /usr/lib/qt) - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.9.86/src and type - make -f Makefile.qt - make -f Makefile.qt install (You must have root-rights for this step.) (copies the files into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/doc/kdiff3) - Note: The file kdiff3.pro was used to generate the Makefile.qt: qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile.qt If you want to build the Qt-only version _and_ the KDE-version, do this in separate directories, otherwise there will be errors. Build for Windows: Use qmake and kdiff3.pro to generate an appropriate Makefile. qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile Build for Mac: - I couldn't test this, so you might have to experiment a bit. - Start by generating a Makefile with - qmake kdiff3.pro -o Makefile - If you succeed, I'd like to know how, so I can document it here. Start from commandline: - Comparing 2 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 - Merging 2 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 -o outputfile - Comparing 3 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 file3 - Merging 3 files: kdiff3 file1 file2 file3 -o outputfile Note that file1 will be treated as base of file2 and file3. If all files have the same name but are in different directories, you can reduce typework by specifying the filename only for the first file. E.g.: - Comparing 3 files: kdiff3 dir1/filename dir2 dir3 (This also works in the open-dialog.) If you start without arguments, then a dialog will appear where you can select your files via a filebrowser. For more documentation, see the help-menu or the subdirectory doc. Have fun!