[OT] Need help compiling with gcc

[jda]

>I think you need specify also
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>1) C++ ?
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>2) if you have already makefile ?
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>3) how many cpp files?
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>4) exe or shared lib ?
>

All good questions...not really sure I know the answers (hm, I said I 
didn't know anything about this stuff! :->). I'm used to CodeWarrior 
(and Pascal). But...

I want to compile YAZ (http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/). It is C/C++, 
and I do see files called makefile.in and makefile.am. I think the 
output will be a library I can link against (with CodeWarrior). There 
are 138 items in the src folder (most .c files, but the web site says 
it's C/C++ programmer's toolkit).

Sorry for the lameness of my answer.

Jon