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# Compilation and installation of mboxgrep
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`mboxgrep` should compile on a modern Unix-like operating system, such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD.
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Autoconf and Automake are used, and the most basic compilation procedure consists of:
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autoreconf --install
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./configure
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make
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make install # root rights probably needed here, prefix with sudo in such case
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```
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(Invocation of `autoreconf` is only required if the source tree has been cloned from the
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git repository.)
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To see the list of flags accepted by the configure script, run:
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```
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./configure --help
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```
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Optionally, `mboxgrep` can be linked with the following libraries:
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- PCRE2, to enable support for regular expressions compatible with Perl 5;
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- zlib and bzlib, to enable support for compressed mbox folders.
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