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- WinLIB Preliminary version 0.0.4
- by Ken Hollis
-
- Before compiling and installing WinLIB, you must make sure that you have
- the following libraries installed on your system:
-
- o GPM version 0.99 or greater (tested with 1.06)
- o NCURSES 1.8.5 or greater (tested with 1.9.7a)
- o LibPANEL (distributed with NCURSES)
-
- Also, keep in mind that the distribution of WinLIB is only for Linux 0.99
- or greater. Further ports may be made for other operating systems, but
- for now, this is the only standard distribution available.
-
- When linking programs in with all of these libraries, you *must* link in
- the following order, or your programs will not link correctly and/or will
- have unassociated object files.
-
- -lwin -lgpm -lpanel -lncurses
-
- A good sequence to add to your Makefile is included in the demo
- directory. Check out the Makefile there - it is the prime example of how
- the program should at least be linked.
-
- If you are sure you have all of the above specified libraries, simply type
- "Configure" and let the configure program do everything it needs to.
-
- After you've configured, it would probably be a good time to keep a
- backup of the old libwin.so.1.x file if you still have one on your
- system. If you don't, don't fret.
-
- After you're done with that, simply type "make" and you're off to a
- fuller, happier life - but make sure you type "make" as superuser.
-
- Once you're done, it's generally a good idea to type "sound_server &".
- This will spawn the sound server in the background, and you will be able
- to run your programs with sound support. Of course, if you don't want a
- sound supportive program, you don't need to run the sound server, but the
- demo program will complain.
-
- If you encounter any problems, please read the included man pages, and
- programmers' guide. If you still have problems with the library, or have
- a bug report, please write to khollis@bitgate.com.
-
- If you want to submit changes, please also submit them to
- khollis@bitgate.com.
-
- Thanks, and enjoy WinLIB!
- -- Ken Hollis
-