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$Id: README 595 2006-04-18 08:33:53Z sam $

Building libcaca

• Run configure then make. Useful configure flags are:

     --enable-ncurses: support for the ncurses library
     --enable-slang: support for the SLang library
     --enable-conio: support for MS-DOS conio.h
     --enable-x11: support for native X11 rendering
     --enable-gl: support for OpenGL rendering
     --enable-win32: support for the Windows console

     --disable-imlib2: remove Imlib2 support in cacaview

     --disable-doc: do not build documentation

• Cross-compilation examples:

./configure --disable-imlib2 --host=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp

./configure --disable-imlib2 --host=i586-mingw32msvc

Using libcaca

• Look into the src/ and test/ directories for source code examples.
• Compiling a libcaca program is fairly simple:

  gcc -c foobar.c -o foobar.o `pkg-config --cflags caca` gcc foobar.o -o foobar `pkg-config --libs caca`