<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="Virtual Screen, Open Source, Software" /> <meta name="description" content="Mouse and Keyboard Sharing" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="synergy.css" media="screen" /> <title>Building and Installing Synergy</title> </head> <body class="main"> <p> </p><h3>Prerequisites for building</h3><p> </p><p> To build synergy from the sources you'll need the following: <ul> <li>Windows <ul> <li>Microsoft Windows SDK for Vista; or <li>VC++ 6.0 or up should work </ul> </p><p> <li>Unix <ul> <li>gcc 2.95 or up <li>X11R4 or up headers and libraries </ul> </p><p> <li>Mac OS X <ul> <li>gcc 2.95 or up <li>Carbon development headers and libraries </ul> </ul> </p><p> </p><h3>Configuring the build</h3><p> </p><p> This step is not necessary on Windows. </p><p> To configure the build for your platform use the configure script: <pre> ./configure </pre> For a list of options to configure use: <pre> ./configure --help </pre> On Solaris you may need to use: <pre> <nobr>./configure --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib</nobr> </pre> so synergy can find the X11 includes and libraries. </p><p> </p><h3>Building</h3><p> <ul> <li>Windows <p> Open a command prompt window (cmd.exe or command.exe). If necessary run vcvars.bat, created when VC++ or Visual Studio was installed. (Use search to find it.) It's necessary to run the file if you didn't have the installer set up environment variables for you. Then enter: <pre> nmake /nologo /f Makefile.win </pre> This will build the programs into <span class="code">build\Release</span>. </p> <li>Unix or Mac OS X </p><p> Simply enter: <pre> make </pre> This will build the client and server and leave them in their respective source directories. </p> </ul> <p> </p><h3>Installing</h3><p> <ul> <li>Windows <p> You'll need <a target="_top" href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/">NSIS</a>, the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. As in the building on Windows description above, enter: <pre> nmake /nologo /f Makefile.win installer </pre> to build <span class="code">build\Release\SynergyInstaller.exe</span>. Run this to install synergy. </p><p> Alternatively, you can simply copy the following files from the <span class="code">build\Release</span> directory to a directory you choose (perhaps under the <span class="code">Program Files</span> directory): <ul class="code"> <li>synergy.exe <li>synergyc.exe <li>synergys.exe <li>synrgyhk.dll </ul> </p> <li>Unix or Mac OS X <p> <pre> make install </pre> will install the client and server into <span class="code">/usr/local/bin</span> unless you specified a different directory when you ran configure. </p> </body> </html>