Building and Installing Synergy

Prerequisites for building

To build synergy from the sources you'll need the following:

Windows
- Microsoft Windows SDK for Vista; or
- VC++ 6.0 or up should work
Unix
- gcc 2.95 or up
- X11R4 or up headers and libraries
Mac OS X
- gcc 2.95 or up
- Carbon development headers and libraries

Configuring the build

This step is not necessary on Windows.

To configure the build for your platform use the configure script:

  ./configure

For a list of options to configure use:

  ./configure --help

On Solaris you may need to use:

  ./configure --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib

so synergy can find the X11 includes and libraries.

Building

Windows
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:
```
  nmake /nologo /f Makefile.win
  
```
This will build the programs into build\Release.
Unix or Mac OS X
Simply enter:
```
  make
  
```
This will build the client and server and leave them in their respective source directories.

Installing

Windows
You'll need NSIS, the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. As in the building on Windows description above, enter:
```
  nmake /nologo /f Makefile.win installer
  
```
to build build\Release\SynergyInstaller.exe. Run this to install synergy.
Alternatively, you can simply copy the following files from the build\Release directory to a directory you choose (perhaps under the Program Files directory):
- synergy.exe
- synergyc.exe
- synergys.exe
- synrgyhk.dll
Unix or Mac OS X
```
  make install
  
```
will install the client and server into /usr/local/bin unless you specified a different directory when you ran configure.