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+#!/bin/sh
+# -copyright-
+#-# Copyright © 2021 Eric Bina, Dave Black, TJ Phan,
+#-# Vincent Renardias, Willem Vermin
+#-#
+#-# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+#-# obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+#-# files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without
+#-# restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+#-# copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
+#-# sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
+#-# the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
+#-# conditions:
+#-#
+#-# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
+#-# be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#-#
+#-# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+#-# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+#-# OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+#-# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+#-# HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+#-# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+#-# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+#-# OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#-#
+
+# This is a script which compiles xfishtank.
+# Use and adapt this if the
+# ./configure; make; make install
+# suite does not work on your system
+#
+
+# Compilers:
+
+# C compiler to compile .c sources:
+CC=gcc
+
+# compile and link flags
+
+FLAGS="-O2"
+# if you have pkg-config working for gtk3:
+FLAGS="$FLAGS `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0`"
+# NOTE: on my system, pkg-config expands to:
+# -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
+
+
+# if you have pkg-config working for gmodule-2.0:
+#FLAGS="$FLAGS `pkg-config --cflags --libs gmodule-2.0`"
+# NOTE: on my system, pkg-config expands to:
+# -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgmodule-2.0 -pthread -lglib-2.0
+
+# if you have pkg-config working for these: x11 xpm
+FLAGS="$FLAGS `pkg-config --cflags --libs x11 xt xpm xext`"
+# NOTE: on my system, pkg-config expands to:
+# -lXt -lXpm -lX11 -lXext
+
+# link flags for libmath:
+FLAGS="$FLAGS -lm"
+
+# following is needed by gtk3 to recognize the buttons:
+# (Should be delivered by pkg-config --cflags --libs gmodule-2.0)
+FLAGS="$FLAGS -Wl,--export-dynamic"
+# or:
+# FLAGS="$FLAGS -rdynamic"
+
+version=`./getversion`
+if [ "x$version" = x ]; then
+ version="Unknown"
+fi
+
+FLAGS="$FLAGS -DVERSION=\"$version\""
+
+cd src || exit 1
+echo "removing .o files :"
+rm -f *.o
+
+echo "creating ui_xml.h :"
+./gen_ui_xml.sh || exit 1
+
+echo "compiling C sources:"
+$CC -c *.c $FLAGS || exit 1
+
+echo "creating xfishtank in directory $PWD:"
+$CC -o xfishtank *.o $FLAGS || exit 1
+
+cd ..
+echo "creating man page xfishtank.1 in directory $PWD:"
+version=`src/xfishtank -v|awk '{print $2}'`
+
+echo
+echo " ***********************************************************************"
+echo " ** It seems that you compiled xfishtank successfully. **"
+echo " ** You can try to run it: **"
+echo " ** **"
+echo " ** src/xfishtank **"
+echo " ** **"
+echo " ** If xfishtank works satisfactorily, you can install it: **"
+echo " ** Copy src/xfishtank to for example /usr/local/bin/ **"
+echo " ** **"
+echo " ** Optionally, you can install the man page too: **"
+echo " ** Copy src/xfishtank.1 to for example /usr/local/share/man/man1/ **"
+echo " ** **"
+echo " ** Optionally, you can install the desktop file and icon: **"
+echo " ** Copy src/xfishtank.desktop to for example **"
+echo " ** /usr/local/share/applications/ **"
+echo " ** Copy src/xfishtank.png to for example **"
+echo " ** /usr/local/share/pixmaps/ **"
+echo " ***********************************************************************"
+