Installing when not root

SDL Development
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Can I install SDL in linux without being root? I’ve compiled it fine,
but of course, can’t move the libraries to the system’s library paths.
Can it be installed to a libs path in my home directory?

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su
make install
exitOn Thursday 02 October 2003 07:09 am, Murray Evans wrote:

Can I install SDL in linux without being root? I’ve compiled it fine,
but of course, can’t move the libraries to the system’s library paths.
Can it be installed to a libs path in my home directory?

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Run ./configure --help
Look for the prefix options. It should be something like ./configure
–prefix=/home/foo/SDL --exec-prefix=/home/foo/SDL
All configure files usually have these options.

When you run ‘make install’, SDL should be installed to /home/foo/SDL.
You might only need the prefix /home/foo; SDL might install to
/home/foo/SDL/SDL instead of /home/foo/SDL. I’m not sure.

You’ll need to add the bin path in /home/foo/SDL to your PATH
environmental variable so you can run sdl-config without the full path
being required.

~ Philip D.S. Thoren

Murray Evans wrote:>Can I install SDL in linux without being root? I’ve compiled it fine,

but of course, can’t move the libraries to the system’s library paths.
Can it be installed to a libs path in my home directory?

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yeah,
during configure stage do this
./configure --prefix=/home/mylogin/

during the ‘make install’ phase there will be some new directories made for
you.
then in your .bash_profile add the following

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/mylogin/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATHOn Thursday 02 October 2003 7:09 am, Murray Evans wrote:

Can I install SDL in linux without being root? I’ve compiled it fine,
but of course, can’t move the libraries to the system’s library paths.
Can it be installed to a libs path in my home directory?

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http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

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deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
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Sure, you can call your SDL programs with an environment variable:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/sdl/lib program-name
or you can export it; put it in your .profile, etc.

I used this idea just two days ago for testing my own build of freetype. I was seeing if there was an issue in the slackware 9.1 provided freetype causing a segfault when I freed an SDL_ttf produced surface of a certain font. Strangely enough, there looks like there’s a problem in freetype =) I’ve used LD_LIBRARY_PATH in many different ways; it’s a very useful setting.

JesseOn Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:09:11PM +0100, Murray Evans wrote:

Can I install SDL in linux without being root? I’ve compiled it fine,
but of course, can’t move the libraries to the system’s library paths.
Can it be installed to a libs path in my home directory?

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SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl