1. Obtain any Prerequisites you need/want. These can often be installed using your favorite Linux package manager. If you need to compile/install them to a nonstandard location by hand, please note the directory prefix where they are installed. 2. If you're using SVM Light, please use this Makefile to build it as a library rather than an executable. 3. Note that SVM Light and SMILE are both nonstandard in that they expect header files and libraries to reside in the same directory (e.g. /usr/local/smile or /usr/local/svm_light). 4. Download and unpack Sleipnir. 5. In the Sleipnir directory, run ./configure. If you've installed prerequisite libraries that it doesn't find automatically, provide an appropriate --with switch for each one. For example, to build Sleipnir with SMILE and SVM Light installed in custom directories under -c /usr/local/, type:
6. If you'd like to install Sleipnir itself to a custom location, include a --prefix=/custom/path/ flag when you run configrue. 7. After configure's completed successfully, run make and make install. 8. Tools that use Sleipnir will be built an installed automatically if Gengetopt and any other prerequisite libraries are available.