Prerequisites - GNU make >= 3.81 http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ - GNU bash >= 2.05a http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ Installing the build system To install the build system you can execute the following command in the root directory of the source distribution: $ make install If you want to install it to a different location (default is /usr/local) you can do $ make install_prefix=/usr install Note that you need to install the build runtime into a place where GNU make will look by default (normally /usr/include and /usr/local/include). Alternatively, you can install it into some other place (for example, your home directory) and set MAKEFLAGS accordingly: $ make install install_prefix=/home/user/local $ export MAKEFLAGS="-I /home/user/local/include" Building examples There is a makefile accompanying each example. Running 'make' usually does the trick. Note that running 'make install' in an example directory will install what the example has built as opposed to installing the example source code.