W3C Lib

The BUILD Script

The BUILD script is placed in the WWW directory and you can use it to compile and link the W3C applications. The BUILD script figures out what platform you are on and generates a Makefile which consists of a platform independent part and a platform dependent part. The independent stuff is all in
	WWW/<application>/Implementation/CommonMakefile
whereas the platform dependent stuff can be found in
	WWW/All/<platform>/Makefile.include
The Makefile.include contains all platform specific compiler flags, linker flags etc. If you encounter problems with the compiler, for example if you don't have it, then modify the flags in this file and retry BUILD.

If your application is not mentioned in the Platform page then read this section to find out about the BUILD script and how to port the source code to your platform. We assume you have a unix-like environment, including some sort of C (either Kernigan and Ritchie or ANSI) compiler, and a socket library supporting TCP/IP communications. If you are on a PC platform, VMS or other then it might require some more hard work depending on the application you want to port.

Now you can install the software according to the instructions given under the status page of the application you want to install.


Henrik Frystyk, libwww@w3.org, December 1995