Syntext Serna Free Edition build and install instructions.
        
1. Prerequisites.

1.1. Operating systems.

    Serna Free Edition builds were tested on the following platforms:
    
  a. Windows XP Service Pack 3
  b. Fedora 10
  c. MacOS 10.5

1.2. C++ compiler

  Serna build requires g++ 4.1+ compiler on Linux and 
  Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express on Windows. 
  MacOS build requires g++ 4.0.x (installed with Xcode 3.1.2)

1.3. Tools and libraries

  Required tools are:
  
    flex
    bison
    grep
    sed
    cat
    bzip2
    gzip
    patch
    tar
    zip
    unzip
    perl

  Since default Windows install does not include these tools, it's necessary to 
  install the following packages to successfully build and install Serna on Windows:
  
  a. ActiveState Perl 5.x (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl)
  b. Cygwin utilities (http://www.cygwin.com)

     Make sure to install 
       1. zip and unzip from Archive category
       2. bison and flex from Devel category
       3. patch from Utils category

  c. Inno Setup 5 (http://www.jrsoftware.org)
  
  Linux systems require X11, zlib and ncurses development libraries to build third-party 
  packages used by Serna. To generate RPM packages rpm and rpmbuild are needed.
  
2. Build process.

2.1. Third-party libraries and tools.

  Serna uses the following third-party packages:
  
  a. ANTLR parser generator version 2.7.1
  b. GNU Aspell version 0.50.5
  c. IBM DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4
  d. DocBook stylesheets version 1.68.1
  e. Doxygen documentation generator version 1.5.1
  f. GNU iconv library version 1.11
  g. libxml2 version 2.6.27 - The XML C parser and toolkit
  h. libxslt version 1.1.19 - XSLT support for libxml2
  i. PyQt version 4.4.4 - Python bindings for Qt library
  j. Python version 2.6.2
  k. QScintilla For Qt 4 text editor version 2.4
  l. Nokia Qt framework version 4.5.2
  m. Qt property browser framework version 2.5
  n. SIP - Python C/C++ Bindings Generator version 4.8.2
  o. Sun JDK 1.6.0
  
2.2. Building Serna.

  a. Unpack Syntext Serna distribution package.
  b. Create 'packages' subdirectory in the '3rd' directory
  c. Place third-party packages in the 'packages' subdirectory
     
     Package archives that are platform independent:
     
       antlr-2.7.1.tar.gz
       aspell-0.50.5.tar.bz2
       DITA-OT1.4_fullpackage_bin.tar.gz
       docbook-xsl-1.68.1.tar.bz2
       doxygen-1.5.1.src.tar.gz
       libiconv-1.11.tar.gz
       libxml2-2.6.27.tar.gz
       libxslt-1.1.19.tar.gz
       PyQt-x11-gpl-4.5.4.tar.gz
       Python-2.6.2.tar.bz2
       QScintilla-gpl-2.4.tar.gz
       qtpropertybrowser-2.5-opensource.tar.gz
       sip-4.8.2.tar.bz2
       qt-all-opensource-src-4.5.2.tar.bz2
       
     Windows packages:
     
       jdk-win32-1.6.0.tar.bz2
     
     Linux packages:
     
       jdk-linux-1.6.0.tar.bz2
     
     Packages can be downloaded from Syntext website at
     
       http://www.syntext.com/downloads/serna-free/
  
  d. On Linux/MacOS, make sure the "make" executable in your path is
     GNU make

  e. Run build.sh on Linux/MacOS or build.bat on Windows
  
     Build produces installation packages that are placed
  
     on Windows: dist\serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.exe

     on Linux: rpm/RPMS/i686/serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.i686.rpm

     on MacOS: build/serna/serna-4.2.0-YYYYMMDD.dmg

3. Installing Serna

  Serna can be installed using standard installation methods for each OS 
  it can be built on. 

  To run Serna on Windows it's required to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 
  Redistributable Package which can be downloaded from Microsoft
  (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf)

4. (for Ubuntu users) 
  Please invoke the following commands to install all devel packages required to build Qt.
  $ sudo apt-get install flex bison libx11-dev libfreetype6-dev libavahi-gobject-dev libSM-dev libXrender-dev libfontconfig-dev libXext-dev