libDesktop is a collection of compatibility and portability routines to help with the development of desktop applications using the Gtk+ toolkit.

With GCC, this should be enough:

$ make

To install libDesktop in a dedicated directory, like /path/to/libDesktop:

$ make PREFIX="/path/to/libDesktop" install

libDesktop defaults to the version 3 of the Gtk+ toolkit. Alternatively, it is possible to re-generate the Makefiles for the Gtk+ 2 toolkit with configure(1) from the DeforaOS configure project, found at https://www.defora.org/os/project/16/configure. The procedure is then as follows:

$ configure -M gtk2-debug
[or "gtk2-release"]
$ make distclean
$ make

Please refer to the documentation of DeforaOS configure for further instructions.