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To compile is to convert the source code of a program into lower-level machine code that can be executed on a computing device.

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Trying to make sqsh with FreeTDS

I am trying to install sqsh on a CentOS Linux box on which I have successfully installed FreeTDS in /opt/freetds. I set the SYBASE variable to /opt/freetds. Configure runs and has this to say about ...
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Computer bluescreens when compiling Visual C++ 2010 project

Occasionally, roughly once every few hours (although it can be less or more frequent), my computer will bluescreen or sometimes just shut down with only a black screen when I compile my visual C++ ...
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trouble compiling linux kernel from source

I am trying to compile a kernel from the source tree found at https://github.com/fio-prf/em, and I am getting the following error when I run make: make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: ...
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Ubuntu, updated boost from 1.46 to 1.52, linker asks for 1.46

I was having some trouble compiling with a piece of software using boost (wt, http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt). I knew (from testing with another machine) that updating from 1.46 would solve my problem. I ...
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"make xconfig" with arch linux

I'm trying to compile a kernel for Arch. I'm using "arch method" - abs, edit PKGBUILD and then "makepkg". Problem is, my Arch is using xfce 4 + gnome 2, but i want to edit my config file using "...
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Compile MakeMKV 1.7.6 - Segmentation Fault

I've previously been able to compile MakeMKV 1.7.5 and older versions, but the latest version (downloaded from http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224) gives me strange segmentation ...
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Installing multiple versions of a shared library

I am running ubuntu 10.04 and I want to use tmux 1.6. tmux has a dependency on libevent 2. My solution was to compile libevent2 and drop into /usr/local/lib then compile tmux against this lib and ...
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Unable to compile with GNU Emacs

I'm trying to use GNU Emacs to write small programs. I use the compile command make -k but i always get the message make -k 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable ...
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Cannot install netbeans on Gentoo

I'm trying to install Netbeans on my Gentoo system and I just cannot get it to work. When I'm compiling it It fails due to not being able to locate org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject. [nb-javac] ...
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full list of EKG2 plugins dependencies

Every time I want to compile and install ekg2 I'm struggling with dependencies. Right now I somehow managed (again) to install all needed packages. Still I have no idea which of packaged i installed ...
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Building Python 2.7.1 on Mac OS X, import threading and a KeyError Exception

Original Problem: I am building Python 2.7.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.7 and am having issues with a KeyError exception being thrown from the threading module when Python is quit (likely on the atexit call). ...
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How create linux-libc-dev package when I compile ubuntu kernel?

I've compiled the last stable ubuntu kernel (2.6.38-...) following this guide: How to compile a Ubuntu 10.10 kernel but in this guide doesn't explain how create linux-libc-dev package for that kernel? ...
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Compile and execute Awesome in a non-root environment

I want to install the Awesome window manager. In the environment where I want to configure it I don't have root access. It's a shared environment for all the users in the Faculty I study in. I am ...
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How can I specify the path to libpcap when configuring/making/installing?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.1 and am trying to get packet capturing working for my Bluetooth dongle using hcidump. From what I've read, libpcap must be compiled to enable Bluetooth sniffing and given ...
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Error in FreeBSD 8.0 Kernel compilation

When trying to compile my own kernel for FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm having some issues. In fact, I can't even re-compile the GENERIC kernel with no changes! The last few lines before I get errors when ...
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Where to get glib-config for Kubuntu?

I'm trying to compile Midnight Commander on a KUbuntu 9.10 (Karmic) box with no root access. I've set up a directory under $HOME, downloaded the mc source package and various stuff required for ...
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Best practice: Where to install Linux packages

Where is the best path to install all files of package when compiling? For example - I want to install ProFTPd, so there's an option --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd , which means, that all files after ...
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How to build rpm package correctly?

I'm trying to install the new version from ganglia, which provides a tar.gz. My procedure was uncompress the tar.gz file, enter in the folder and then makes rpmbuild -ba ganglia.spec, a warning ...
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Have to do "sudo make" or else C can't create executables

I used to be able to run make like normal, but now I have to run make as super user or else it will fail saying that the c compiler can't create executables. Why did this happen?
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ldd but for interlibrary dependencies?

Is there a tool like ldd which shows which libraries an executable depends on,but for inter-library dependencies. For example one shared library needs another one.How to get the dependencies. I'm in ...
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why most applications are precompiled?

It confused me since I began to build a PC. Games and applications are given as binary executable files, but how can I fully utilize my CPU's advanced instruction sets. There must be difference ...
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Ubuntu - Trying to compile filezilla

I am trying to compile filezilla following the instructions on their site, but when i do the sudo ./configure command it tells me i'm missing libfilezilla: checking for LIBFILEZILLA... no ...
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Compile the kernel to increase the command line max length

Following up on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14176089/system-command-line-max-length-in-perl, which say the max length for exec/command line arguments is controlled by ARG_MAX. So I want to ...
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libssh2.so.1cannot open shared object file?

I am trying to run medusa program when I have run it with command medusa -d I got + cvs.mod : Couldn't load "/usr/local/lib/medusa/modules/cvs.mod" [libssh2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No ...
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Can I run the Linux Fortran compiler for Intel with Cygwin?

I'm on Windows 7, 64-bit. Can I run the Linux Fortran compiler for Intel with Cygwin?
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Compile ffmpeg-4.2.2 on macOS with Haivision-SRT 1.4.1 >>> ERROR: srt >= 1.3.0 not found using pkg-config

I got following error while compiling ffmpeg-4.2.2 on MacOS 10.14.6 with the Haivision-SRT 1.4.1 package: ERROR: srt >= 1.3.0 not found using pkg-config First, I tried it with the srt package ...
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Compiling for ARM Windows

Microsoft have released a full version of Windows 10 for ARM Architecture, to run on Snapdragon processors. It includes an emulation layer to run x86 binaries out of the box. However, I expect this ...
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What is a front-end for the GCC Compiler?

From what I know a front-end is a GUI for a program or for a website that has a web application in the "back-end". I am confused to ses that for the GCC (GNU C Compiler) there are many front-ends but ...
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fatal error: 'mysql/mysql.h' not found (but added in path)

I use MAC OS X El capitan 10.11.5 I am trying to understand and execute some code on c++ (it is a lot of files and i am new to c++ a), but when i type "make" to compile everything, it returns the ...
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Changed windows system clock now date modified of files are wrong

I was working in Visual Studio 2013 and testing some code for event handling on specific dates. I changed the Windows clock to be 1/1/2016, compiled code in visual studio (specifically a web project ...
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Compiling FFcast for Ubuntu 14.04, "libx11 is required"?

Here's what I've run so far: $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/lolilolicon/FFcast.git $ ./bootstrap $ configure --enable-xrectsel --prefix /usr --libexecdir /usr/lib --sysconfdir /etc The ...
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Configuring DRAM size when compiling an ARM (linux-sunxi) kernel for an allwinner a10 tablet

I've got a goclever a103 tablet (http://goclever.com/goclever_tab_a103) and I want to install linux on it to boot it from an SD card. First thing I found online were SD card images for a very similar ...
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Can I compile code on a VPS account?

I intend to purchase a Windows VPS account with the following: - Windows Server 2008 Standard 64-bit OS 2 GB RAM 1,000 GB/month bandwidth I develop Windows software but not for so long, I just got ...
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What library does the arg "-lphp5" refer to for GCC?

Where can I get the library -lphp5 refers to? Is it a part of a metapackage for YUM? Can I find the source somewhere? I'm having some configuration issues with PHC and this seems to be at the root ...
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Compile and Install qtjackctl on Mac OS X

Is it possible to compile and install qjackctl on Mac OS X? If so how do you? EDIT: When I try to install it it does this: http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/G9610d6NviAZQ7nnZCwQ/ any ideas as to why?
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Multiple versions of glib

I have an older version of glib that all applications are compiled against and use. I need to install a new application that requires a newer version of glib to compile and run. I installed the new ...
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What kind of files are these? Compiled files, self extracting files or something else?

I'm a newbie using Linux. I understand that there are binary packages a source code that may come in .zip. However, I downloaded a zip package (you can see in the picture). I just extracted, then cd ...
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"Unknown option "PATH=[...]"" when following the official ffmpeg compilation guide

I wanted to compile ffmpeg myself in order to get a smaller executable I can then dristribute with my program. While following the official ffmpeg compilation guide for Ubuntu I get an error when it ...
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Compiling Linux creates corrupted object files

I'm trying to update my current system to Linux 5.4.85. I have two toolchains that support compiling this kernel: gcc 4.6.3 and gcc 10.2.1. The compilation fails with both. I downloaded and extracted ...
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Can one process use multiple cors at the same time in parallel?

I'm still a bit hazy with my understanding of a computer processor in relation to the work of a process. Being specific, I plan on getting a new computer and ultimately want to get the fastest compile ...
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Tensorflow compilation "-Wno-sign-compare" flag meaning

When I build tensorflow from source I get prompted: Please specify optimization flags to use during compilation when bazel option "-config=opt" is specified[Default is -march=native --Wno-sign-...
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Compile a *.f90 file using gfortran

I have started using fortran. I am working on a Mac OSX version 10.10. As the fortran compiler, I installed gfortran and to make sure it is properly installed, I tried to issue gfortran on terminal ...
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Trying to compile Asylia via its makefile, with MinGW... Wrong compiler? How to fix?

I'm trying to compile Asylia via its makefile, with MinGW... Am I using the wrong compiler? It's seems MinGW is getting stuck on the square brackets in "$(BUILD):"... And square brackets in MinGW are ...
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make install error when compiling a program with cuda

I am trying to compile THIS program for my ubuntu system using the master source. I have installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers and the AMD 3.0 SDK drivers via the basic install instructions on AMDs website....
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Can't compile libbpg-0.9.7 for BPG (Better Portable Graphics) on Ubuntu 14.04

Obs.: My guess is that I am not setting something in the makefile or that I am using the work SDL-devel and SDL_image-devel packages they ask to install previously. Actually, I am installing "libsdl2-...
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Recompiling and restarting a daemon

I am developing a server daemon. I already have a functional version of this server running, but I've now compiled a new version of it. How do I replace the current process with the new one? Can I ...
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How to build cups generic RPM on OpenSUSE 13.x?

The cups website suggest to build generic RPM packages with rpmbuild -ta tarball.tar.gz, but there's no dbus-devel and no libusb-devel package in OpenSUSE 13.1 (there's dbus-1-devel). Is there a way ...
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Why does tcpdump not come precompiled and how to compile it?

Hello I recently downloaded tcpdump from the www.tcpdump.org/ website, extracted the tar.gz file and found nothing but source and header files, I do not posses the necessary knowledge to get a working ...
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Error compiling gcc on Raspberry Pi

So, after solving the problems I had before (previous question here), I'm having some other trouble compiling gcc 2.95.3 on my Raspberry. This is what I get with the make bootstrap command. ../../...
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Custom kernel 2.6.18 compile in centos ends on fail

I'm compiling from RPM source. The same compile worked in the past but not this time. May be you can help me to solve this issue? make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/xen/...
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