Linux-like machines (using unaligned data structures) =================== wput 0.6: run 1) ./configure; make 2) make install *3) make uninstall If you want to compile Wput with memory-debugging-support, run ./configure --enable-memdbg make clean make You can reduce the size of the Wput executable by removing the debug-information using: ./configure --disable-g-switch make clean make Fedora Core =========== Someone told me, it is necessary to edit the Makefile and change the first line to prefix = /usr/share Debian ====== To build a binary debian-package use: fakeroot debian/rules binary and install it afterwards using: dpkg -i ../wput_0.6* Windows ======= Use either the precompiled exe or use the MSVC6-project in src/msvcpp, to compile your own. In this case you will have to copy src/msvcpp/config.h.ms to src/config.h Wput will compile with ssl-support enabled, but will require ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll to be able to use these features. You might consider copying the exe to %WINDIR% for easy command-line access from all locations. SCO === If you are using SCO (i know from someone using SCO-openserver) you have to do some extrawork: I don't know why, but make does not compile getopt/getopt.c and getopt/getopt1.c so this has to be done by hand: cd src/getopt gcc -c getopt.c gcc -c getopt1.c There might also be a problem with the isspace function that might be predefined on your system, so it should work if you delete these lines if your compiler complains.