libApp is a message-passing framework. It is designed to become the core component for the DeforaOS Project, providing transparent and protocol-agnostic network computing capabilities. Regardless, libApp is intended to be portable and work on any system, using any POSIX-compliant runtime as fallback if available.

libApp depends on the following software components to build:

• pkg-config from the freedesktop software collection, as found in most software distributions already; otherwise at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ (or a compatible replacement)
• libSystem from the DeforaOS Project, as found at https://www.defora.org/os/project/27/libSystem
• libMarshall from the DeforaOS Project, as found at https://www.defora.org/os/project/4400/libMarshall
• configure from the DeforaOS Project, likewise found at https://www.defora.org/os/project/16/configure

Before being able to build libApp, it is necessary to generate Makefiles with configure(1). It should be enough to run this tool as follows:

$ configure

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

It is then possible to build the project with make(1) as usual. The following command should therefore be enough:

$ make

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

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