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<html><head><title>Compilation and Installation</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/kde-default.css"type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="installation.html"title="AppendixA.Installation"><linkrel="prev"href="requirements.html"title="Requirements"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Compilation and Installation</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="requirements.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"></div><divclass="navCenter">Installation</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="compilation"></a>Compilation and Installation</h2></div></div></div><p>In order to compile and install <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> on a system with KDE, type the
following in the base directory of the <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> distribution:</p><preclass="screen"><codeclass="prompt">%</code><strongclass="userinput"><code><spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="command"><span><strongclass="command">./configure --prefix=<spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="replaceable"><emclass="replaceable"><code>kde-dir</code></em></span></strong></span></span></code></strong>
<spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="replaceable"><emclass="replaceable"><code>kde-dir</code></em></span> specifies the directory
containing KDE on your system. If you are not sure, read the README-file for details.
</p><p>If you don't use KDE don't use <spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="command"><span><strongclass="command">configure</strong></span></span> but follow the instructions for Qt-only systems in the README file.</p><p>Since <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> uses <spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="command"><span><strongclass="command">autoconf</strong></span></span> and
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