Re: Compile problems
Shawn H Corey <[email protected]>
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On 10-10-26 05:50 PM, Andy Civil wrote: > I like some of Simon Tatham's puzzles. At the moment, I'm using the windows > binaries under Wine, but that seems a bit silly when Linux versions are > available, so I set about getting that working. > > I have Ubuntu, which seems to have Gnome, so that's a good start. I download the > tarball into a directory, there's a Makefile, so I open a shell there and type > "make". Several screenfulls of errors ensue, all the ones I can see relate to > things in 'gtk.c' that it can't find. Questions: > > I'm used to doing: > ./configure > make > make install > > but in this case there's no file called ./configure is that normal? > > I wanted to see the first error that came out of make, but it scrolls off the > screen. Why does "make | more" not pause it for me? "less" doesn't work either. > Is it something to do with it being stderr? > > Any idea why it won't compile? Am I starting on the road to dependency hell? More than likely. The exact sequence to get it to compile should be in the README* or INSTALL* files. Some variations of configure are: Configure configure.sh config.sh BTW, these puzzles are available in compiled form in the Ubuntu Software Centre. Just download one of them and you get them all. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug