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Top Forums Programming compiling Post 7661 by loadc on Friday 28th of September 2001 11:10:08 PM
Old 09-29-2001
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So, you wanna compile a program...

Well, demarc tells you how:

http://www.demarc.org/documentation/

This little puppy had an area on building the binaries, basically that is speak for compiling the source to get the binaries...

In all, mos tof the software you can download will have some sort of doc in the tar file, usually a README and an INSTALL doc right in the dir it creates.
Read through those, and most s/w will have a Configure script that they'll have you run, and this will setup the Makefile for your particular system. The Makefile is what the make utility uses to direct itself through compiling the files for the program. The Makefile defines in what order and whether or not source files are compiled and with which compiler switches.

It is actually MUCH easier than it sounds, you download the tar, untar it, read the docs, run the configure script (if there is one), and then run (usually in this order, read the doc):

make
make test
make install

And that should do you right...




Later,


loadc
 

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create_makefiles

CREATE_MAKEFILES()														CREATE_MAKEFILES()

NAME

       create_makefiles - Recreates all Makefiles beneath a directory

SYNOPSIS

       create_makefiles [dir]

DESCRIPTION

       create_makefiles recreates all Makefiles in dir and its (recursed) subdirectories from the corresponding Makefile.am templates.

       This script must be run from the toplevel directory (the one containing configure). This script saves time compared to re-running configure
       completely.

       If the source directory is different from the build directory (see the environment variables below), it will be assumed that each
       Makefile.am and Makefile.in belongs beneath the source directory and that each Makefile belongs beneath the build directory.

       This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

ENVIRONMENT

       One of the following variables (but not both) should be set if the source directory is different from the build directory. If the build
       directory is simply a subdirectory of the source directory, the simpler variable OBJ_SUBDIR should be used.

       OBJ_SUBJDIR
	   Indicates that the build directory is in the given subdirectory of the source directory. For instance, if the source directory is
	   kdesdk and the build directory is kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then OBJ_SUBDIR should be set to obj-i386-linux.

       OBJ_REPLACEMENT
	   A sed expression that is used to transform the source directory into the build directory. For instance, if the source directory is
	   kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then OBJ_REPLACEMENT should be set to s#kdesdk#kdesdk-obj#.

SEE ALSO

       create_makefile(1) make(2)

AUTHORS

       create_makefiles was written by David Faure<faure@kde.org>.

       This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton<bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

																CREATE_MAKEFILES()
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