Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-419

Chapter 11. General Utilities

Highlight-4.17

Introduction to Highlight

Highlight is a utility that converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting.

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Package Information

Highlight Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.89.0 and Lua-5.4.8

Optional

Qt-6.10.0 (to build the GUI front-end)

Installation of Highlight

For consistency, do not compress man pages. 

sed -i '/GZIP/s/^/#/' makefile

To build Highlight run the following command: 

make

To build the qt6 GUI front-end, run the following command: 

make doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.17/ gui

This package does not come with a test suite.

To install Highlight, run the following command as the root user: 

make doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.17/ install

To install the GUI program, run the following command as the root user: 

make install-gui

Command Explanations

doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.17/: installs the highlight documentation into a versioned directory. This parameter is also needed for make gui, because its value would be hardcoded into the gui executable. Note that the trailing “/” is necessary.

Contents

Installed Programs: highlight and highlight-gui (optional)
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /etc/highlight, /usr/share/doc/highlight-4.17, and /usr/share/highlight

Short Descriptions

highlight

is a universal source code to formatted text converter

highlight-gui

is the qt6 interface to highlight.