Highlight-3.53

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.0

### Chapter 11. General Utilities

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# Highlight-3.53

## Introduction to Highlight

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

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/highlight-3.53.tar.bz2

- Download MD5 sum: 8ec42b1d6d68f2eab4d27a63ef86bdc7

- Download size: 1.3 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (with gui)

- Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using paralllelism=4; with gui)

### Highlight Dependencies

#### Required

Boost-1.70.0 and Lua-5.3.5

#### Optional

Qt-5.13.0 (to build the GUI front-end)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/highlight

## 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 Qt5 GUI front-end, run the following command:

    make gui

This package does not come with a test suite.

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

    make install

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

    make install-gui

## Contents

Installed Programs: highlight
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /etc/highlight, /usr/share/doc/highlight, and /usr/share/highlight

### Short Descriptions

highlight | is a universal source code to formatted text converter.

Last updated on 2019-08-17 15:16:30 -0700

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