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Title: How Do I Compile From Source?
Post by: Col.Havoc on June 10, 2003, 05:05:00 PM

I'm not sure on coding and compiling programs, so bare with me.

I found this on download.com and it said it needs to be compiled, so, I have the links here and here

How would I compile these programs?

Title: How Do I Compile From Source?
Post by: AdmStng on June 10, 2003, 05:20:00 PM

not going to compile it in windows.. you can extract the files in windows, but what ever is in that tar is made for a linux box

go on yo0ur linux machine and type (in the dir where the file is..) #tar -zxvf <packagename.tar.gz> then, you'll see a newly created directory name similair to the package name... "CD" into it and do a "ls -al" to do a listing,  then you'll see a INSTALL file  (usually al in caps liek that somtimes wqith or with out extention)  so just "vi" into it (eg: #vi INSTALL) and that will give you instructions on how to install the program (if it is one)

then again i am still new to linux...others might tell you different, but this seems to work for me ;).. see ya on the other side Col..

Title: How Do I Compile From Source?
Post by: Col.Havoc on June 11, 2003, 03:49:00 AM

Yeah, I know about that for Linux. Just wondering since it was listed in the windows section of download.com as well.