Install Notes for fityk

Configure stage

Commands executed on Ubuntu 16.04 OS:

sudo apt-get install lua5.2 liblua5.2 zlibc lua-zlib libxy-dev

Above perhaps unneccessary. Here's output of apt-cache depends fityk:

fityk
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: liblua5.1-0
  Depends: libreadline6
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: libwxbase3.0-0v5
  Depends: libwxgtk3.0-0v5
  Depends: libxy3v5
  Depends: zlib1g
  Recommends: gnuplot
    gnuplot5
  Suggests: libjs-sphinxdoc

So just make sure those packages are installed by executing:

sudo apt-get install libc6 libgcc1 liblua5.1-0 libreadline6 libstdc++6 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libxy3v5 zlib1g

Now to install fityk from source...Despite the install instruction, the configure script doesn't exist. Have to run autoreconf --install.

Output of ./configure:

wxWidgets must be installed on your system but wx-config script could not be found.

Please check that wx-config is in path, the directory where wxWidgets libraries are installed (returned by 'wx-config --libs' command) is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable and wxWidgets version is 3.0 or above.

Couldn't find wxWidgets libraries which is outrageous because the libwxbase libraries are clearly installed
Output of wx-config --libs:

The program 'wx-config' can be found in the following packages:
 * libwxbase3.0-dev
 * libwxgtk3.0-dev
Try: sudo apt install <selected package>

So then executed sudo apt-get install libwxbase3.0-dev. Apparently that package provides something that libwxbase3.0-0v5 does not because now ./configure runs successfully

Make stage

Well surprise, surprise the dependencies required by the fityk package again fall short
Immediately after running make, get the error swig_not_found: command not found.
Installed swig3.0 but apparently that doesn't actually provide any swig commands. Had to install swig2.0 in order to get any output from which swig.
Have to reconfigure after this: ./configure

During make getting a lot of errors like this:

/usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/containr.h: In instantiation of ‘void wxNavigationEnabled<W>::SetFocus() [with W = wxWindow]’:
parpan.cpp:461:58:   required from here
/usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/containr.h:247:38: error: incomplete type ‘wxNavigationEnabled<wxWindow>::BaseWindowClass {aka wxWindow}’ used in nested name specifier
           BaseWindowClass::SetFocus();

Execute sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev
make now executes without issue
Can finish installation by running sudo make install. However, I'm not really interested in moving this out of my home space so I'm going to call it quits there.

Summary:

Packages installed (some were already installed on my system and some may not actually be necessary):

lua5.2
liblua5.2
zlibc
lua-zlib
libxy-dev
libc6
libgcc1
liblua5.1-0
libreadline6
libstdc++6
libwxbase3.0-0v5
libwxgtk3.0-0v5
libxy3v5
zlib1g
libwxbase3.0-dev
swig3.0
swig2.0
libwxgtk3.0-dev

Commands executed in `fityk` source directory:

autoreconf --install
./configure
make -j4