Compiling

Michael Havens wrote:

> I have decided to venture into new teritory. I downloaded a driver (hopefully)
> for my webcam. The tar -xed file contains a bunch of c and header programs. I
> need to know what to do. These are the programs that I am talking about:
>

> knoppix@bmike1:~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11/2.4.21$ ls
> ls
> pwc-ctrl.c  pwc-ioctl.h  pwc-uncompress.c  pwc.h        pwc_nala.h
> pwc-if.c    pwc-misc.c   pwc-uncompress.h  pwc_kiara.h  pwc_timon.h

>
> One that I find particularly interesting is the pwc-uncompress.c because
> (though I am inexperienced) I think that it will uncompress all the other
> programs contained with it; however, I am unsure. Could someone teach me what
> I need to know and how to run gcc?
>

Look for a README or INSTALL file in the root directory of the untarred files
(e.g. ~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11). It should explain how you go about
installing this driver.