This documents describes if and how the library is installed on your system.

I. Linux/Unix environments (including Cygwin and MinGW):

  Configure the options by editing the Makefile.
    Read carefully the description of options at top of the Makefile.
    Take care for the special OS/OSTYPE depending sections.
    Especially if you are going to use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism.

  Call GNU make often called 'gmake' for building the library.
  GNU make is called 'mingw32-make' for MinGW.

  Add option 'OSTYPE=msys' when calling make for MinGW.
  Add option 'OSTYPE=cygwin' when calling make for Cygwin.
  Add option 'OS=osx' when calling make for MacOS X or Darwin.
  Add option 'OS=freebsd' when calling make for FreeBSD.
  Add option 'OS=netbsd' when calling make for NetBSD.
  Add option 'OS=solaris' when calling make for Solaris.

  Get system user with 'su', if you are going to install into
    system directories

  Call 'gmake install' for installation in system directories.

  Note: You need not install DUMA. Setting system PATH for duma.sh
    or INCLUDE/LIBS variables after compilation may suffice, too.
    The (outdated) manual page needs installation.


II. Windows 2000/XP, Visual Studio Environments:

  Compile and run 'createconf', that generates the file duma_config.h.
  Compile 'dumalib' and set the directories 'INCLUDE' and 'LIBS'
  in your environment or project.


III. Solaris Environment:

  Add the location(s) of the GNU Toolchain (gmake, gcc, ar, ..) to the PATH:
  On my Solaris 10 installation with the Companion CD it is:
    /opt/sfw/bin and /opt/sfw/lib/bin

  Also notice that the Makefile has to contain some special settings so that
  the compiled executable can dynmically find and link to libstdc++. Have a
  look at the solaris section in DUMA's Makefile.


IV. FreeBSD Environment:

  At least on my FreeBSD-6.2 installation i have to set the shell environment
  variable with 'export DUMA_DISABLE_BANNER=1' before running any programs
  linked with libduma.a. There seems to be an initialization problem with
  the pthreads library.


V. NetBSD Environment:

  At least on my NetBSD-3.1 (HOSTTYPE=i386; OSTYPE=netbsdelf) installation
  i always get exactly one memory leak. I've not tested to install.



Hayati Ayguen

15 September 2005,
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