Many of the best-organised software projects around the world are the legions of free and open source offerings. This is in part due to one reason, namely the tight use of source code control and ...

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros for all kinds of users, from Linux newbies to seasoned campaigners. For ...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OSX do the same thing: they set the search path for dynamic libraries at runtime (it's not used while compiling).

Again, you can compile software directly from source code—download the source code which comes in a tarball, unzip it and then compile it.

Auto-Compiling Linux Drivers: A Novel Solution for a Lingering Problem Software-RAID or Hardware-Assisted HBA customers are no doubt familiar with the complexity and tediousness of driver compilation.

Compiling zlib is straightforward. All you need to do is compile each C file and then link them all together. You can write a Makefile for it, but then you have to modify it on every single platform.

Porting the 508 design to the SPM also required modifying the sangoma WANPIPE software driver to compile and run on Linux for the Motorola MPC850 processor module. The changes mostly involved ...

First and foremost: the days of having to build and compile software using a command line just to install it on Linux are long gone. That's still an option, sure, but if that's something you've ...