Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations can be typeset with LaTeX. As well as EPS, PDF, and PNG output, it can produce WebGL 3D HTML rendering and (using dvisvgm) SVG output.
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/asymptote/asymptote-3.14.src.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 158921966b8be1049e933b5154774c66
Download size: 27 MB
Estimated disk space required: 338 MB (55 MB installed after overwriting files in $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/, with all the dependencies which are in BLFS)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (using parallelism=4)
ghostscript-10.07.1 and texlive-20260301
cURL-8.21.0, Freeglut-3.8.0, GC-8.2.12, GLEW-2.3.1, GLM-1.0.3 and libtirpc-1.3.7
dvisvgm-3.6.1 to allow svg output
fftw-3.3.11, gsl-2.8, libsigsegv-2.15, Vulkan-Loader-1.4.357.0, rapidjson to use LSP which can be used with emacs, click, and eigen
ImageMagick-7.1.2-13 to convert output to other formats such as JPEG or to create animated GIFs, PyQt5 (not tested, has a build dependency of Qt5) to use xasy
Editor Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/asymptote
Certain 3D PDF scripts may not work when invoked from pdflatex on some zen+ amdgpu APU machines.
First, fix a build error when both GL and Vulkan are disabled:
sed -i "/SHIMLIB.*asydir/d" Makefile.in
Install asymptote by running the following commands:
export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
./configure --prefix=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX \
--bindir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH \
--datarootdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist \
--infodir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/info \
--libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist \
--mandir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/man \
--disable-lsp \
--disable-vulkan \
--disable-gl \
--with-latex=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/tex/latex \
--with-context=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/tex/context/third &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--prefix=, --bindir=, --datarootdir=, and other
“dir”
switches: these switches ensure that the files installed from
source will overwrite any corresponding files previously installed
by install-tl-unx so that the
alternative methods of installing texlive are consistent.
--libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist:
This parameter ensures that the asymptote directory will similarly overwrite any
files installed by install-tl-unx.
--disable-lsp: The Language
Server Protocol is enabled by default, with several third-party
sources included, but it does not build unless boost and rapidjson
have been installed.
--disable-vulkan
--disable-gl: Building Vulkan or GL backends require
the GLFW package, and several other external libraries not in BLFS.
--disable-lsp: The Language
Server Protocol is enabled by default, with several third-party
sources included, but it does not build unless boost and rapidjson
have been installed.
--disable-gc: There does not seem to be
a simple way to build asymptote against the system GC. If you don't
want to use the shipped copy of GC, you can use this option to
completely disable garbage collection, which may have some impact
on performance.
--with-latex= --with-context=: These switches
ensure that style files and a tex file will be installed into the
texlive directories instead of
creating a texmf-local directory for
them.