How can I edit open source code and building the application?
I would like to to edit open source codes and building as applications. I’m wishing to edit entire operating system of linux in future. But unfortunately I know only a little bit of C++, and I don’t know how to building applications from source codes. So i wish to move step by step from a simple software. Where can I download open simple source codes? and How can i compiling it as applications?
You need to find several books to help…
20 of the Best Free Linux Books
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090405061458383/20oftheBestFreeLinuxBooks-Part1.html
The Linux Cookbook:
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html
Introduction to Linux
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/intro-linux.html
10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/05/10/10-free-linux-ebooks-for-beginners/
There are a few location that recently were posted in my distro forum, a good amount of reading material to assist you with a bit of education… I am sorry i am not more specific, but there is a vast amount of information requested in your questions…
Are you using a Linux distro currently?
JR
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Running 24/7 a 64-bit version of Mepis a KDE Debian based Linux since may 2007
In general it goes something like this:
go to sourceforge.net
pick a package
download the source
extract the source (gunzip package.tar.gz ; tar xf package.tar)
in the unpacked source directory:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install