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Manual install instructions

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@node Building the program, Getting help, Fat-free Accounting, Introduction to Ledger @node Building the program, Getting help, Fat-free Accounting, Introduction to Ledger
@section Building the program @section Building the program
Ledger is written in ANSI C++, and should compile on any platform. It Ledger is written in ANSI C++, and should compile on any unix platform.
depends on the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (libgmp), and The easiest way to build and install ledger is to use the prepared
the Perl regular expression library (libpcre). It was developed using acprep script, that does a lot of the footwork:
GNU make and gcc 3.3, on a PowerBook running OS/X.
To build and install once you have these libraries on your system,
enter these commands:
@smallexample @smallexample
$ ./configure && make install # to install missing dependencies
./acprep dependencies
# building ledger
./acprep update
# to run the actual installation
make install
@end smallexample @end smallexample
See the `help` subcommand to `acprep`, which explains some of its many
options. You can run `make check` to confirm the result, and `make
install` to install. If these intructions do not work for you can check the
`INSTALL.md` in the source directory for more up do date build instructions.
@node Getting help, , Building the program, Introduction to Ledger @node Getting help, , Building the program, Introduction to Ledger
@section Getting help @section Getting help
@findex help @findex help