Getting started

[clarkedavida]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to get started with this package. I am trying to follow what's in the README but nothing seems to work...

For example in INSTALL I am recommended to

./configure && make && make install

but there is no file called configure, so this does nothing. Next I navigated to the doc folder and tried both

make doc
make doc-install

which both tell me there is no rule to make the corresponding target.

I have to admit I am a complete novice with C. Am I missing something obvious? Some advice would be appreciated.

[eromero-vlc]

In INSTALL it says that one has to run autoconf to generate configure from configure.ac. But it doesn't give further details. Just run the script autogen.sh to generate configure:

bash autogen.sh

[AxelKrypton]

Just as further comment, to run autoconf smoothly you might need to first generate an m4 environment for autotools via aclocal.

As external user, from how the source appears, I guess authors assume here that the user is somehow familiar with the build flow in linux. If you want to know more, I find this tutorial pretty nice. As side remark, as explained in the last two sections of the linked tutorial, the end user should probably get a configure file and not need to know about the autotools details. My guess is that it was not desired to separate maintainers from users here (see also what I reported in #4).

[clarkedavida]

Thanks both of you for the help. Axel, you guessed correctly that I am not familiar with the build flow in Linux, and I found those references to be helpful.

I see now the paragraph about autoconf in INSTALL. I think it might be helpful for a newcomer like me to add explicitly bash autogen.sh as a step 0 to the procedure. I don't mind to add a quick start guide to README.md myself, if I have permission to do that!

If you don't think that would be helpful, you can go ahead and close this issue. lime_writer_test1 prints some stuff about writing to the screen, which I take as an indication that everything worked out.