OpenSuse compiling instructions has left me lost

Compiling software - openSUSE

I installed only gcc43-c+++. The instructions said to run make, and im totally confused

Next you run make. This will build the program and when it is done you already might be able to run it. Look where it is and you can already try it with ./program-name or src/program-name or wherever is is placed inside the directory. Compiling can be very fast or very long depending of the size of the application.

source file is located in

/home/k3ntegra/Downloads/abx-1.0.1/src

First: What are you trying to install?

abgx360, a back up check program


linux-39g2:~ # cd /home/k3ntegra/Downloads/abgx360-1.0.1
linux-39g2:/home/k3ntegra/Downloads/abgx360-1.0.1 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for crc32 in -lz... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for curl-config... no
checking whether libcurl is usable... no
configure: error: "libcurl not found!"
linux-39g2:/home/k3ntegra/Downloads/abgx360-1.0.1 # make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
linux-39g2:/home/k3ntegra/Downloads/abgx360-1.0.1 #

says it can’t find libcurl yet i have libcurl4 and libcurl4 32 bit already installed

devel packages?

You need the relevant devel packages, 9/10 when it says you haven’t got *** you need ***-devel