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Building Opal on Unix (pre-Wolf)

This page describes how to build Opal prior to revision 2.4.2 (Wolf). For information on building later releases of Opal, see this page

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Prerequisites
3. Download the Opal source code
4. configure and build

1. Introduction

Opal is built from source using make and configure in the same way as most other Unix programs.

2. Prerequisites

You will need the following:

• gcc 3.2.2 or later. Earlier versions of gcc may work, but are not maintained.
• A compiled installation of PTLib
• A copy of the Opal source archive from the SourceForge download page or from Subversion

3. Download and install the Opal source code

Download and extract the Opal source code. For the purposes of this document, the directory that contains Opal will be indicated as installdir/OPAL

4. configure and build

To build the release (optimised) version of Opal, use the following commands:

cd installdir/OPAL

./configure

make opt

To build the debug version (includes debugging symbols) of Opal, use the following commands:

cd installdir/OPAL

./configure

make debug