REQUIREMENTS:
=============

Dia needs Gtk+ at least version 2.0.0 installed.
It can be found at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

Binaries available at:
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/binary/devel/RPMS/
or
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/binary/devel/DEBIAN/

Note that Gtk 2.0 has a number of requirements of its own.

Pango (required by Gtk) needs to be at least version 1.1.5.

As of version 0.91, Dia also needs libxml2, version 2.3.9 or higher.
It can be found here:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libxml/

As of version 0.91, Dia under Unix also needs freetype2, version 2.0.9 or
higher.  It can be found here:
  http://www.freetype.org

As of version 0.91, Dia requires intltool version 0.21 or higher.  It is
also required for Gtk.  It can be found here:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/

A number of other libraries are recommends for extra features:

Libart allows anti-aliased rendering and anti-aliased export to PNG:
  http://www.artofcode.com/libart.html
Libpng is required for anti-aliased PNG export:
  http://download.sourceforge.net/libpng/
Libxslt allows export through XSLT translation schemas:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxslt/
Extra Gnome support (limited) is available with installation of the gnome
  libs:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs/
  Note that ./configure must be run with --enable-gnome to use Gnome.
Python scripting is possible by adding --with-python and having the
  following installed:
  Python: http://www.python.org
  PyGtk: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/v2.0

BUILDING:
=========

To build, run:

 ./configure
 make

PLATFORM NOTES:
===============

AFS
	The fact that you on AFS can make hard links within, but not
	between directories might cause problems due to a bug in
	libtool (at least som versions). 
	What happens is that messages like
		Waiting for arc.o.lock to be removed
	repeats themselves during compliation.

	A couple of work arounds are
	available: Run configure with the flag
	--disable-libtool-lock. This might break parallel builds
	though. Another (uglier) fix is to hack the libtool script
	generated by configure. Change the line:

          until ln "$0" "$lockfile" 2>/dev/null; do

	to

          until ln "$srcfile" "$lockfile" 2>/dev/null; do


COMPILING FROM CVS:
===================

If you are using the cvs version of Dia you need to have the following programs:
automake 1.4, autoconf 2.50, libtool 1.3, GNU gettext 0.10.38, intltool 0.21

Then run ./autogen.sh instead of configure to create all needed files.

WARNING: if you run ./autogen.sh, you will need to have gettext
0.10.38 installed, or to extract a few M4 files from that package and
include them manually into aclocal.m4.

TRYING IT OUT:
==============

You can try out dia in the compilation directory by running
 ./app/run_dia.sh

INSTALL:
========
install it by doing:

 make install

By default Dia is installed in /usr/local.
You can change that by passing --prefix=/some/dir to configure.


FONTS:
======
I recommend that you install the URW fonts if you haven't already.
They are free scalable version of the standard postscript fonts.

Information and files can be found at:

 http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html


