how to compile a big project in linux command line?

[jeremy28]

Hello all

I've got the "OpenCryptoKi" project source from "sourceforge.net"

But I don't know how should I compile and build it by "GCC" or "Make"?!

I have ubuntu 9.04 and I've set the linux runlevel at 3, but I'm not so familiar with compiling such project at

commandline environment of linux!

Please help me how to compile this?!!

I'm so hurry!!

THX

[jayd512]

Have you checked out this page? Link.

[Rubberman]

Most Linux projects supplied as source code have a configure script that will test your system for necessary and/or compatible components such as compiler, libraries, etc. and then generate a Makefile. After that, normally you would first execute "make" with no arguments, and then run "make install" as root, or in your case with Ubuntu you would run "sudo make install". If the is no configure script, then run make directly. If there is a configure script and it gives you an error trying to configure the build environment, you can try "./configure --help" to get a list of options you can use to modify the behavior of the script, such as skipping some unnecessary components that may not exist on your system.