How I compiled pastebincl on linux

First, I followed the instructions included in the tar.gz, usually, this is enough to get it running...right?

Apparently not.

This is my second time trying to install this, and I've finally succeeded. Other people will have trouble compiling and installing, so here's how I did it:

1) I installed the missing curl library, as per compile error

  sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

2) I went into the src and edited the Makefile, because the compile instructions were actually wrong/malformed

  cd src
  vi Makefile

a) I edited the compile instructions from this:

  CXXFLAGS=-Wall -Werror -O2

  $(CXX) $(CXXLIBS) $^ $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@
  $(CXX) $(CXXLIBS) -c $< $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@ -DENCODING_KEY=\"${ENC_KEY}\"
  $(CXX) $(CXXLIBS) -c $< $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@

to this:

  CXXFLAGS=-Wall

  $(CXX) $^ $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@ $(CXXLIBS)
  $(CXX) -c $< $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@ -DENCODING_KEY=\"${ENC_KEY}\" $(CXXLIBS)
  $(CXX) -c $< $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@ $(CXXLIBS)

See what I did? I moved the library links to the end of each line and removed the redundant -Werror, as well as the potentially error-prone -O2 optimizing flag

3) While there:

  make

This time, it worked!

I had a suspicion it was the g++ line when I noticed the link at the beginning, and if this hadn't worked, I would have given up. I was that close to total frustration.

4) I exited src and then installed

  cd ../
  sudo make install

5) I tested it out, and lo and behold, it worked

  pastebincl -g <enter>
  Hello World
  ^D
  saving to pastebin...

In fact, this paste right here, was sent via pastebincl

  cat how_I_Compiled_this | pastebincl -n 'How I compiled pastebincl on linux'

Bastian, if you're reading this, I'm letting you know right now that your Makefile is broken. -lxxxx flags are supposed to go at the end of a gcc command.

-Braden Best a.k.a B1KMusic