New Make System

The standalone make file was originally generated by a feature in NetBeans, and was heavily modified to make it work, but it never looked very clean. Some consideration was given to rewriting it using the proper make rules (having individual build rules for each individual source file is not the way make is suppose to be utilized).

Continuing to use the make system within NetBeans was not desirable, though it allows the setup to deal with multiple platforms (Linux and Windows). A reason for not using it is that releasing all the associated files is not really an ideal option. And it never really worked right for the auto-generated include files from the awk scripts - warnings were generated for every build and no solution for eliminating these warnings was ever found (perhaps this was a bug in 6.9.1 that may have been fixed in 7.0).

Using the GNU autotools was out of the question - way too complicated and too much time coming up to speed with it. Instead the CMake system (Cross platform make generator) will be used as it is far simpler to setup and use. Plus NetBeans is supposed to understand CMake files. Adding CMake on Kubuntu installed version 2.8.2, however, this version did not contain the ccmake user interface for configuring the build. So the Linux source for version 2.8.4 (the latest) was downloaded (from here) and installed.

There are two prerequisite packages that are required to build the text CCMake GUI (more on this later), which are the libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev packages. These can be installed with this command:

sodu apt-get install <package-name>