How to compile a program?
Hi!
When ever I google how to compile a program, this is the instruction
...which seems nice and dandy. However, when EVER I do it, this happensCode:tar xvjf file.bz2 cd file ./configure make su make install
I'm always missing a lot of dependencies or something. Now, I just installed g++ from the magical apt-get, and output now looks like this:Code:~/System/PDFedit/pdfedit-0.4.5 $ ./configure checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for cc++... no checking for cl.exe... no checking for FCC... no checking for KCC... no checking for RCC... no checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no checking whether the C++ compiler works... no configure: error: in `/home/ojkolsrud/System/PDFedit/pdfedit-0.4.5': configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.
Now, Boost isn't a program i can fetch from apt-get. I could do aCode:~/System/PDFedit/pdfedit-0.4.5 $ ./configure checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes checking for _Bool... no checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for size_t... yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking if zlib is wanted... checking for inflateEnd in -lz... yes checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for inflateEnd in -lz... (cached) yes checking zlib in /usr... ok checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... configure: error: We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.20 or higher). If you have a staged boost library (still not installed) please specify $BOOST_ROOT in your environment and do not give a PATH to --with-boost option. If you are sure you have boost installed, then check your version number looking in <boost/version.hpp>. See http://randspringer.de/boost for more documentation.(yeah, it's probably a stupid way to search for files, but it works) to find it, but I rather don't.Code:find | grep -i 'boost'
My question is, is there a standard compiler package that includes the most common compiler tools needed for programs like this? I'm starting to feel like a real newb when I always have to google for package.deb or look for PACKAGE FOR UBUNTU-USERS.
Sorry about raging=P
cheers!
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Originally Posted by Kols
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