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<refentry id="orc-building" revision="29 may 2009">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>Building Orc and Applications That Use Orc</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>Orc</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>

<refnamediv>
<refname>Building Orc and Applications that use Orc</refname>
<refpurpose>
How to build Orc and applications using it.
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsect1>
<title>Building Orc on UNIX</title>

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  <para>
    On UNIX, Orc uses the standard GNU build system,
    using <application>autoconf</application> for package
    configuration and resolving portability issues,
    <application>automake</application> for building makefiles
    that comply with the GNU Coding Standards, and
    <application>libtool</application> for building shared
    libraries on multiple platforms.  The normal sequence for
    compiling and installing the Orc library is thus:

    <literallayout>
      <userinput>./configure</userinput>
      <userinput>make</userinput>
      <userinput>make install</userinput>
    </literallayout>
  </para>

  <para>
    The standard options provided by <application>GNU
    autoconf</application> may be passed to the
    <command>configure</command> script.  Please see the
    <application>autoconf</application> documentation or run
    <command>./configure --help</command> for information about
    the standard options.
  </para>

  <para>
    By default, code generators for all targets are built into the
    library.  Embedded system developers may wish to use the
    --enable-backed option, which will disable all other code
    generators, saving about 200 kB in binary size.  Outside of
    embedded systems, using --enable-backend is not recommended.
  </para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
<title>Building Orc Applications</title>

<para>
Applications and libraries can use <command>pkg-config</command> to get all the
needed compiler and linker flags to build against Orc.  The following
commands will provide the necessary compiler and linker flags:

<literallayout>
  <userinput>pkg-config --cflags orc-&ORC_MAJORMINOR;</userinput>
  <userinput>pkg-config --libs orc-&ORC_MAJORMINOR;</userinput>
</literallayout>
</para>

<para>
When compiling from source, the default installation directory is not
in the default path for the <command>pkg-config</command>, so you may
need to set the PKG_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.
</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>