Building on 64-bit Linux

Before attempting the build the project on Linux, the version control repository of the project code was converted from the Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) to git, a more modern version control system. The version installed using Kubuntu's software package manager was 1.7.4.4. However, this version did not have the needed cvs import utility, so the latest version was installed directly from the git repository, though git is required to retrieve it. This was version 1.7.6. Using git will have no impact on this project's software releases except that the CVS versions tags will be removed from the source files.

The intention was to use command line make file distributed with the project to build on Linux. Previously on Windows, NetBeans was used to build the project, though the command line make file (which was initialized generated by an option in NetBeans) was used to test the project before a release. For the moment, NetBeans would not be used (more about this later). Some minor problems needed to be resolved before it would build and work on Linux...