Pragmatic Rdesktop - How to Compile

update 05/01/2002

By Colin A. Bitterfield
SUN Microsystems, Inc.

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This is a quick how to on compiling rdesktop http://www.rdesktop.org by Matt Chapman. The source is available here.

I am also including a SUN Package for Solaris 8. You will also openssl-0.9.6c-sol8-sparc-local.gz

The requirements are:

Compiler: gcc 2.95.3 included with Solaris 8 (02/02) Companion CD
Make: gmake 3.79.1 also included with Solaris 8 (02/02) Companion CD

$ gtar -zxvf rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz
$ cd rdesktop-1.1.0
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-openssl

Then I edited the Makefile as shown.

CC       = gcc
CFLAGS   = -O2
INCLUDES = -I/usr/X/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include
LDLIBS   = -L/usr/X/lib -lX11-lsocket -lnsl

$ gmake
$ gmake install

Thats it.

Alternately you can do a package add on the SUN package from this howto.

$ pkgadd -d rdesktop-1.1.0-sol8-local

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