The Art of Compiling in Linux

Most of the people complain about compiling programs in Linux. Particularly those applications which require getting your hands dirty by using shell commands.

I have been compiling eggdrops and emechs from my IRC days back then and PVPGN and running a game server. Im currently compiling an otserv in Fedora 9 and thankfully, the instructions are in Debian and Ubuntu: http://otfans.net/wiki/index.php/Compiling_OTServ_under_Ubuntu .. hey how bad can it be? You could still yum your way through the needed libraries.

Important thought before you start is to know the important libraries needed. Most of the time they are the -devel or -dev libraries since you are compiling a program right? But the problem is most of the -devel libraries are dependent to their parent application. Say for example mysql-devel is dependent to mysql.i368.. So nonetheless you have to install the pair.

An important thing in compiling.. remember to:
1.) Check the libraries needed by the program you are compiling
2.) always remember: ./configure, make, make install

People really wouldnt bother compiling their own and just getting the executables.. But thats not always the case.. If you have the source and the only executables are in windows exe.. what do you do? Thats where everything comes in..

With the source files, you could port it into different platforms as long as the libraries are supported.

Try it out yourself, get an eggdrop IRC bot and compile away.

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