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Senryu

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Registered: 2013-03-30

Posts: 25

Help me to compile a software from source

Hi, I searched in the wiki but I only found a page that explain how to compile the kernel, not a program from source.

Also, I know that Nightingale it's on the AUR repository, but I want to understand how to compile software from source, so maybe I can help the community as well.

Now, I was reading this guide http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html for trying to compile this software that I downloaded in /home/denis/dls/

I have succesfully extracted the archive of the source files (http://getnightingale.com/), and later done those commands:

[[denis@vaio-arch dls]$ cd nightingale
[denis@vaio-arch nightingale]$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[denis@vaio-arch nightingale]$

So, I don't know what to do now, I think there isn't a ./configure file, but in that link it doesn't explain how to continue without it.
I have tried to build it anyway but:

[denis@vaio-arch nightingale]$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

So? I think there is no make file as well

Last edited by Senryu (2013-03-30 21:53:11)

graysky

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Re: Help me to compile a software from source

Look at the PKGBUILD in the AUR to learn what to do manually.

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Trilby

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Re: Help me to compile a software from source

There is a  build.sh in the tarball.  You can run that - but you will not learn anything about building software, you'll just be running a script.

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Arctus

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Registered: 2012-07-14

Posts: 99

Re: Help me to compile a software from source

The archive you downloaded contains the compiled program btw, unless you're not as blind as me.

Last edited by Arctus (2013-03-30 22:23:28)