Build and install the application

Building socan is easy.

Get the source code

You can either check out the source with mercurial version control system or download and unpack a tar.gz file.

Method one: Download a tar file

Download the tar file from https://sourceforge.net/projects/socan/files/

Unpack:

tar -xzf socan-*.tar.gz

Method two: Check out with mercurial

Enter:

hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/socan/code socan

Build the application

Regardless how you got the source code, simply enter these commands:

cd socan
make

The libraries are in directory “lib64”, the test programs and scripts are in directory “bin”.

Install the application

If you want to install socan in directory “/usr/local”, simply run:

make install

If you want to define another installation directory, change variable PREFIX in file “Makefile”.