VLINK or TLINK compile problems

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## VLINK or TLINK compile problems

(None of this is valid for Windows. Use the precompiled `tlink.exe or tlink.pl`.)

The latest version of `vlink.c` and `tlink.c` have been compiled on the following systems:

        AIX 4.1
        BSD2.0 (Pentium/x86)
        Digital Unix (OSF/Alpha)
        FreeBSD 2.x and 3.x
        IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.1
        Linux
        SCO OpenServer 5.x
        Solaris 2.x (Sun compiler and GCC)
        Solaris 7 (Sun compiler and GCC)
        SunOS 4.1.4

Some problems may occur. In general, you can ignore warnings about pointers.

Make sure that you have run the configure program in the src directory. If you use MiniVend's makecat program it will try to compile an appropriate link at that time, and will substitute tlink.pl if that doesn't work.

You can compile manually with the proper settings with this series of commands:

        cd src
        ./configure
        perl -e 'do "syscfg"; system ("$CC $CFLAGS $DEFS $LIBS -o tlink tlink.c")'
        perl -e 'do "syscfg"; system ("$CC $CFLAGS $DEFS $LIBS -o vlink vlink.c")'

There is also a `compile_link` program which has docmentation embedded and which will compile an approprate link.

If you cannot compile, try using the `tlink.pl` script which should work on most any system.

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