More complete build documentation is available on the libarchive

Wiki:  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki

On most Unix-like systems, you should be able to install libarchive,

bsdtar, and bsdcpio using the following common steps:

    ./configure

    make

    make install

If you need to customize the target directories or otherwise adjust

the build setting, use

    ./configure --help

to list the configure options.

If you are developing libarchive and need to update the

configure script and other build files:

    /bin/sh build/autogen.sh

To create a distribution, please use the 'distcheck' target:

    /bin/sh build/autogen.sh && ./configure && make distcheck

On Unix-like and non-Unix-like systems, use the "cmake" utility (available from

http://cmake.org/) to generate suitable build files for your platform.

Cmake requires the name of the directory containing CmakeLists.txt and

the "generator" to use for your build environment.  For example, to

build with Xcode on Mac OS, you can use the following command:

    cmake -G "Xcode" ~/libarchive-download-dir/

The result will be appropriate makefiles, solution files, or project

files that can be used with the corresponding development tool.

The default on Unix-like systems is to generate Makefiles, so you

can also use cmake instead of the configure script:

    cmake ~/libarchive-download-dir/

    make

    make install

See the libarchive Wiki or the cmake site for further documentation.