When it comes to installing BeeCrypt you basically have the following alternatives:
The primary download location for the source tarball is through Virtual Unlimited's download page. Alternatively you can download from SourceForge.
Once you have the source tarball, unpack it with GNU tar (if you have it); on Windows you can use WinRAR.
The library can be built on a variety of platforms, and we will illustrate the two most common ways:
Using the GNU toolchain
The source tarball contains a configure script produced with GNU autoconf; on most platforms you will want to use this.
As with most configure scripts, there are a few options you can use:
--prefix/usr/local. Another
suggested location is the /usr directory.--target--target=sparcv8plus-sun-solaris2.8--target=i686-pc-freebsd4.3--enable-debug--disable-optimized--without-javaglue--disable-threads--disable-aio--with-mtmallocTo build, run:
To install, run:
Using Visual C++ for Win32
Microsoft Visual C++ is currently the preferred platform for compiling the library, as it seems faster and more stable than other platforms.
The prerequisites for compiling are:
Before going on, make sure the following Visual C++ tools are found on your PATH: cl.exe, (the compiler), ml.exe (the assembler), link.exe (the linker) and nmake.exe (the make utility).
For the Win32 platform, there is a Makefile.mak for Visual C++ included; if you have a Pentium class processor, you won't have to configure the source tree.
This Makefile.mak is set up to compile Java support into the library. If you don't have JDK 1.2 or later installed, you'll need to edit this file.
To build, run:
Using Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Win32
The prerequisites for compiling are:
To build, start the CodeWarrior IDE, open project file 'beecrypt.mcp'
and make the BeeCrypt DLL by pressing the [F7] key.
Installing the BeeCrypt DLL
To install, either copy file 'beecrypt.dll' to your Windows System directory (on Windows 95/98/Millenium), or to your Windows System 32 directory (on Windows NT/2000).
If you don't need the BeeCrypt DLL globallly available, copy it into the same directory as the application which is going to use it. If you intend to develop software with BeeCrypt, you'll need file 'beecrypt.lib'. Either copy it into project directory, or point your Makefile or project to it.
Several different flavors of precompiled versions exist.