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  1. Source Code Licensing
  2. Building from a source distribution.
    A. Building under *nix, MSYS or CygWin.
    B. Building under Windows.
    C. Building under MacOSX.
  3. Building from the CVS/Subversion tree
  


1. Source Code Licensing
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  BuildSys is now being distributed under the GPL 2.0 or greater license.

  Source code found under the src/contrib directory does not originate from the
  BuildSys project. As such, source code found under this directory does not
  fall under the BuildSys project's license. Details about licensing for the
  source code under this directory can be found in the project directories and
  within the src/contrib/README document.




2. Building from a source distribution. 
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  You should have downloaded or otherwise received a file by the name of 
  buildsys-X.Y.tar.gz or buildsys-X.Y.zip. This file contains all the source
  code and build scripts needed to create the buildsys executble. 

    A. Building under *nix, MSYS or CygWin
    --------------------------------------

      With any luck a simple
  
        ./configure; gmake; gmake install
  
      will work for you. Note that you have to use gmake on systems like
      FreeBSD, or else you will get some errors about not being able
      to change into the obj directory...


    B. Building under Windows
    -------------------------

      Once you have unziped the source, you should be able to find the file

        build/Dev-C++/buildsys.dev

      Open this using dev-c++, which can be found at (don't worry, its free)

        http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

      You should be then able to simply hit Ctrl-F9, or go to the Execute->Compile
      toolbar option to build the buildsys exectuable. (Note: version 5.0 beta or
      higher is required to build buildsys)

      To build the installer executable, install the Nullsoft installer software
      (which is also free), found at 



      within the unziped folder. Inside this directory is a 'Dev-C++' directory.
      Within this directory
      

    C. Building under MacOSX
    ------------------------

      For now, folow the directions in section A. You should end up with a
      command line executable. Hopefully eventually someone familiar with
      MacOSX shell integration will come along and help build us an installer
      and such. 



3. Building from the CVS/Subversion tree
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There is only one additional step to building from the cvs/svn repository:
run autoreconf --force --install.
Then you can go on with the usual ./configure;make;make install