macOS Learning to compile

[silvermike]

I downloaded a program that needed to be compiled to be used, and I'm trying to teach myself the process. The first problem I had when I ran a ./configure was missing SDL 1.2. I downloaded it, but when I try to run it, I'm instructed to run ./configure, then make, then make install. I got through the first two steps, and the third told me permission denied (i'm the only user). I repaired permissions, and then tried again, and the same problem cropped up, only on the second step. Help!

This is all in Terminal on OSX 10.4.10.

 

[kainjow]

When you do

make install

try

sudo make install

instead. It will ask you for your password, and should work fine.

 

[silvermike]

Okay, that worked, now SDL seems to have installed successfully - I'm still stuck with this error, though:

*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to sdl-config.
configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

That's what I just installed

Thanks for your help!

presumably the SDL_CONFIG environment variable is in the configure script, but I don't know how to open and alter it.

 

[kainjow]

This thread should fix it.

 

[silvermike]

Thanks for your continued help.

I have gotten the computer to find the damn file, but I'm still getting permission problems - and running with sudo in front of a .configure command isn't asking for my password or bypassing any permissions. Is their a different command for it?

 

[kainjow]

I have gotten the computer to find the damn file, but I'm still getting permission problems - and running with sudo in front of a .configure command isn't asking for my password or bypassing any permissions. Is their a different command for it?

You don't need sudo with configure. Use it with the "make install" command.

 

[silvermike]

Right - but I haven't gotten there yet; when I try to configure it, it finds the appropriate SDL file, but then gets a permission denied error.

 

[kainjow]

What is the error? There are different types of permission errors.

 

[silvermike]

checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... ./configure: line 1: /Users/Mike/LORDS/SDL-1.2.12/bin/sdl-config: Permission denied
./configure: line 1: /Users/Mike/LORDS/SDL-1.2.12/bin/sdl-config: Permission denied

 

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