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Obtaining and Compiling the LIDESC utility

Obtain and Build LIDESC

1. If you do not already have a librock directory, create one. All files will be placed there and in subdirectories.

	mkdir librock

2. Change the current directory to be the librock directory.

	cd librock

3. Get a copy of the LIDESC source files, in one of the following ways:

3.1 Using HTTPsync

	httpsync @http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/lidesc.lst

3.2 If you do not have HTTPsync, obtain and untar the .tar file
http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/lidesc.tar

(If you need a way to untar, you can compile and use http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/chisel/untar.c)

4. Build lidesc using either one of the following methods:

4.1 Compile chisel/lidesc/mlidesc.c to be an executable. (try gcc -o mlidesc ./chisel/lidesc/mlidesc.c) This executable is the LIDESC bootstrap. Running it will build lidesc. (Inspect the output to see how to control it. It will also provide instructions for creating librock/target/local.h and librock/target/local2.h if they do not exist.)

4.2 If you already have librock/target/local.h and librock/target/local2.h, you can create a project file or edit the makefile. (chisel/librock/makefile is included, but you will need to inspect it and possibly make adjustments for your particular compiler and system. We suggest running it as make -f chisel/lidesc/makefile)

Using LIDESC

5. Since the LIDESC files themselves include LIDESC license stamps, you can see how the system works right away. For example:

        lidesc check ./text/astring.c

For other uses, see LIDESC User Documentation

6. To start using license stamps with other files, see

Obtaining existing license description files

Creating license stamps for files

Creating a license description file