To build, do: ./configure make This will build the libraries and tests, and run the tests. If it fails, please send me a bug report at carlton@bactrian.org. To then install, become root and do make install This will install the library into /usr/local/lib, headers into /usr/local/include/unittest, and documentation into /usr/local/share/unittest. If you want to use a different directory instead of /usr/local, you can do make install prefix=/name/of/other/directory instead.