-*- text -*- Installation Procedure 0) Preparation To build and install GNU Wget, you need to unpack the archive (which you have presumably done, since you are reading this), and read on. Like most GNU utilities, Wget uses the GNU Autoconf mechanism for build and installation; those of you familiar with compiling GNU software will feel at home. 1) Configuration To configure Wget, run the configure script provided with the distribution. You may use all the standard arguments configure scripts take. The most important ones are: --help print help message --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX (/usr/local by default) --bindir=DIR user executables in DIR (PREFIX/bin) --infodir=DIR info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info] --mandir=DIR man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man] --build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [BUILD=HOST] --host=HOST configure for HOST [guessed] --target=TARGET configure for TARGET [TARGET=HOST] --enable and --with options recognized (mostly Wget-specific): --with-ssl[=SSL_ROOT] link with libssl [in SSL_ROOT/lib] for https: support --disable-opie disable support for opie or s/key FTP login --disable-digest disable support for HTTP digest authorization --disable-debug disable support for debugging output --disable-nls do not use Native Language Support --disable-largefile omit support for large files --disable-ipv6 disable IPv6 support So, if you want to configure Wget for installation in your home directory, you can type: ./configure --prefix=$HOME You can customize many default settings by editing Makefile and config.h. The program will work very well without your touching these files, but it is useful to have a look at things you can change there. If you have OpenSSL libraries installed in one of the default directories, such as /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/ssl/lib, you can simply `configure --with-ssl'. If you have it installed elsewhere, you need to specify your alternate OpenSSL root directory. For instance, if libcrypto.* and libssl.* are in /opt/openssl/lib, you need to `configure --with-ssl=/opt/openssl'. To configure Wget on Windows, read the instructions in `windows/README'. If this doesn't work for any reason, talk to the Windows developers listed there; I do not maintain the port. That does not apply to the "Cygwin" environment, where Wget should compile out of the box as described here. 2) Compilation To compile the program, type make and cross your fingers. If you do not have an ANSI compiler, Wget will try to KNR-ize its sources "on the fly". This should make GNU Wget compilable on almost any Unix-like system out there. After the compilation a ready to use `wget' executable should reside in the src directory. I do not have any kind of test-suite as of this moment, but it should be easy enough to test whether the basic stuff works. 3) Installation Use `make install' to install GNU Wget to directories specified to configure. The standard prefix is "/usr/local/", which can be changed using the `--prefix' configure option. The installation process will copy the wget binary to $PREFIX/bin, install the wget.info* info pages to $PREFIX/info, the autogenerated manual page (where available) wget.1 to $PREFIX/man/man1, and the default config file to $PREFIX/etc, unless a config file already exists there. You can customize these directories either through the configuration process or making the necessary changes in the Makefile. To delete the files created by Wget installation, you can use make uninstall.