Please read the GCC-FAQ
, that can be found in the docs
directories of sunsite
and tsx-11
before compiling any
programs. Many questions (in fact, most) on compiling programs with
Linux are answered there. Many Linux distributions include most
relevant FAQs in the directory /usr/doc
, so you might look
there first.
If you have the source code for a program that uses X11, usually it will be shipped with an Imakefile instead of a Makefile. What to do now?
Run xmkmf
in the directory that containes the Imakefile. If there is a
hierarchy of directories with Imakefiles, you usually only have to run
xmkmf
in the root directory of that hierachy. You can configure the rest
by typing make Makefiles. This will build the Makefiles in all
directories in the hierachy. Then you should run make depend
. Don't be
afraid if include files like stddef.h
, varargs.h
, ... are not found,
they are gcc
proprietary header files and therefore not in the standard
include directories (XFree86 versions prior to 2.1 use a makedepend
not
based on gcc -M
). After
that you can make the program by running make and you can install it
(usually in /usr/X386/bin
) by running make install
, installing of the
manpages is done by running make install.man
. Of course, before even
running xmkmf
, you should have read the documentation that comes usually
with such packages.
If libraries are missing, please read section Additional libraries above.
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