Compiling

Windows users should follow the Step by Step Instruction for Windows.

Other users should follow these steps:

1. Log in as root

2. Install the package:
   gcc GNU Compiler Collection
   make GNU Make
   tar GNU Tape Archiver
   Ubuntu users: you can install necessary packages with sudo apt-get install build-essential manpages-dev

3. Extract the source package into your preferred directory:
   tar -xzf smstools*.tar.gz
   Solaris users: edit src/Makefile as instructed inside it

4. Use make to compile and install the sources:
   make
   make install

The book describes the installation procedure of the SMS Server Tools much more in detail. It also explains how to install and use other useful programs like Apache webserver, MySQL, PHP script language, cronjobs, shell scripts, sendmail, fetchmail, formail, sed, awk, cut, grep. All these programs are also available for Windows.

The book is about the version 2.x and written, maintained and owned by Stefan Frings.