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Justin_

Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:23 pm


Tutorial Request.

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Hi, I'm new to linux and I think the ability to compile sources would be a good skill to have.  Can anyone write a tutorial on the strategies they use to compile sources?  I find I download a source of something and it has over 15 header files and a few .cpp files and I have no idea how to compile it.  And could this tutorial be written specifically for GCC in terms of how to do all the linking and so forth?  I couldn't thank you enough if you decided to write a tutorial on this.  Thanks.


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rizzix

Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:35 pm



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it's pretty much standardized really


cd to_dir
./configure --various-options
make
sudo make install


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Justin_

Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:56 pm



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How would you know what the "various options" are?


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Hikaru79

Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:29 am



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How would you know what the "various options" are?

They'd have to be mentioned in the INSTALL or README file, since each program will have different compile-time options. However, most of the time you don't need any of those fancy options, the defaults are just fine.


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rizzix

Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:06 am



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How would you know what the "various options" are?

usually you just need to type: ./configure --help