Installation Hints: =================== NOTE: This package is used to build KMess from source code. If you're looking for a simple way to install KMess, take a look at http://www.kmess.org/download/. NOTE: These instructions are meant for UNIX-like systems. If they don't work for you, please tell us at http://www.kmess.org/board/. For building on Windows, see this Wiki page: http://trac.kmess.org/wiki/Compiling%20KMess%20for%20Windows To install KMess from this source package you need to create a separate build directory first. It must be created outside the source folder. After that, you must configure your build using cmake. To ease the building process, KMess comes with a 'configure' script that creates the directory and runs CMake for you. To build this package, simply run: cd kmess ./configure make To install on most systems, you can run: sudo make install If your system doesn't come with sudo, you can use: su -c 'make install' That's it! Of course, building without the configure script is also possible: mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install Useful parameters: ================== The configure script automatically makes the right build for you. For a release (non-alpha or beta) package, the configure script builds KMess in release mode; for an alpha or beta package, KMess will run in debug mode. When something goes wrong, debug mode will help us find the cause, and fix it. :-) If you want to modify your build, you can try the following options to the configure script: --prefix=/usr Install in the /usr directory instead. --build-type=(one of debug,debugfull,release,relwithdebuginfo,minsizerel) Tell CMake to build this specific build type. Also consider running "ccmake" for an curses-interface to cmake. ccmake only works after the build directory has been configured with cmake before.