MacOS

MacOS, by default, provides an alias for gcc. This alias points to clang and Apple’s LLVM.

1. Generate the configure script

autoconf will generate the configure bash script to find required dependencies.

autoconf

2. Generate the makefile

configure will create the final makefile, filling in variables and C flags with what’s defined in configure.ac

./configure

3. Build the shared library

make sharedlib will compile the Awry library to lib/libawry.X.X.X.dylib.

make sharedlib

4. Install the library

Install the shared library to /usr/local/lib and the headers to /usr/local/include/awry.

make install

5. Build and run the test suite

make tests ; ./bin/testsuite

6. Alternative

The default make command will run all of the above commands. Use only after reviewing the generated Makefile.

make

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