X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?p=runtime.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=370c15318b400ceb3ce8d34d85d3d145231b57a0;hp=71fb1948b6d30ce340bdbe54c44c3f4c0122fe30;hb=HEAD;hpb=d47a87b03b846e2333ef57b2c0d81f1644992964 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 71fb1948..370c1531 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,30 +1,32 @@ Quick Installation ================== - To configure and compile SILC package give the comands: + To configure and compile SILC Runtime Toolkit give the commands: ./configure - make (or gmake) + make make install - This will install the SILC binaries and configuration files into the -/usr/local/silc/ directory. System wide configuration files are installed -into the /etc/silc/ directory. - -Some Configuration Options -========================== +Configuration Options +===================== You can give various options to the `configure' shell script. You should give --help command to the `configure' to see all of them. Here is listed few options that you might want to use. Please refer to the rest of this file for more generic installation instructions. -`--with-gmp=PATH' +`--with-iconv[=DIR]' + + If your system doesn't provide iconv() function in its native libraries +(usually libc) or if this function is broken (e.g. older Solaris systems), +you may want to use libiconv instead. The DIR is the upper path in your +system which contains lib/ and include/ for libiconv (e.g. /usr/local). - If you wish to use GMP library for arbitrary precision arithmetic -library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can -give the --with-gmp=PATH option to the `configure'. The PATH is the path -to the GMP library in your system. +`--without-pthreads' + + If you do not want to compile the programs with POSIX multi-threads +support you can give --without-pthreads option. In this case all compiled +programs will work in single thread only. `--disable-asm' @@ -38,17 +40,21 @@ optimized code is not compiled in. If you would like to enable the debugging for the compiled programs you can give this option to the `configure'. -`--disable-threads' - - If you do not want to compile the programs with multi threads support -you can give --disable-threads option. In this case all compiled programs -will work in single thread only. - `--enable-ipv6' The `configure' will attempt to check for IPv6 support in your system. - However, if it fails, but you still want to compile in the IPv6 support - you can give --enable-ipv6 option to force the IPv6 support. +However, if it fails, but you still want to compile in the IPv6 support +you can give --enable-ipv6 option to force the IPv6 support. + +`--disable-cpu-optimizations' + + By default the configure script will attempt to detect the type of your +CPU and enable any features specific to your CPU that could optimize the +performance of the Toolkit. If you are creating binary package that should +work on any CPU (and not only your CPU) you should diable these +optimizations. If you compile it for yourself only, keeping the +optimizations enabled is recommended. + Basic Installation ==================