1.2. Installation

The installation of libcfg+ is straightforward. It uses traditional UNIX systems way. For a basic installation, simply execute the following three commands in the specified sequence.

./configure
make
make install

By default this will install following header and appropriate symlinks file on you system typically located in /usr/include/ directory.

• platon/cfg+.h file
• platon/cfg.h symbolic link
• cfg+.h symbolic link
• cfg.h symbolic link

Of course, also library files will be installed. Typically in /usr/lib/ directory. It consists of the following components:

• libcfg+.a static library
• libcfg+-0.7.0.so shared library
• libcfg+.so symbolic link to shared library

Note that you can pass several options with arguments to the ./configure script. Type ./configure --help to get more information.