8. Building Skyeye from Source

8.1 Linux/Unix

You may need to check following packages are exsiting in your linux/unix machine.

Then enter skyeye sourcecode directory:

$ make

The SkyEye binary will be in binary/skyeye (posix) or binary/skyeye.exe (cygwin)

Options

Skyeye has a small number of options that can be specified when building.


To compile the binary as static, which allows for easy distribution:

$ make STATIC=1

You can enable various compile options on the commnad line. For example, to disable
DBCT do the following:

$ make NO_DBCT=1

To disable compiling with the LCD do the following:

$ make NO_LCD=1

To disable compiling the network device support do the following:

$ make NO_NET=1

You may wish to not compile with the BFD library, to create smaller,
standalone binaries.

$ make NO_BFD=1

8.2 Windows

You need cygwin and mingw installed to compile skyeye from source in Windows2k/XP. To get virtual netcard working you need to install TAP driver for windows. You can install openvpn-2.0.9-install.exe from http://openvpn.net∞.

For cygwin, you need to install addtional packages of:

you MAYNOT neet the following package, because current skyeye support native win32 LCD, Please check

For mingw, you need to install

To check out latest skyeye trunk source type:

$ svn co http://skyeye.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/skyeye/skyeye-v1/trunk∞ skyeye_trunk

Then cd into skyeye_trunk directory and type "make"!

(This document orginated from Skyeye README.)