Prerequisites

• Texinfo, if you're editing the manual.
• pkg-config (windows binary available from http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html)
• SDL 1.2.11 or later from http://www.libsdl.org
• (Windows) MinGW + MSYS from http://www.mingw.org

From a tarball

libfake437 is properly autotooled, so the usual ./configure && make && make install routine should produce something useful.

From SVN

If building from SVN, you'll also need the autotools; MinGW users can try the MSYS DTK, but it probably doesn't have a new enough libtool. Other OSes tend to have sane package management, so it shouldn't be too hard to get the prerequisite tools.

After checking out the source, run

$ autoreconf -i

To generate the configure script. MSYS users may need to upgrade their versions of autoconf, automake and possibly libtool.

to give autoreconf a hand. You may need to call configure with the ACLOCAL parameter as well (./configure ACLOCAL="aclocal -I /c/sdl/share/aclocal").

Compiling programs that use libfake437

pkg-config support is provided, so for autotooled packages, use PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libfake437], [fake437]) in the usual way.

Simple makefiles can use pkg-config --cflags fake437 and pkg-config --libs fake437 in the usual way.