Building GKlib requires CMake 2.8. Once you've installed CMake run $ make This will build the GKlib library in build//. Options can be tweaked by running make config. For example, $ make config openmp=ON $ make will build GKlib will OpenMP support if it is available. GKlib can be installed with $ make install and uninstalled with $ make uninstall You can choose the installation prefix with make config: $ make config prefix=~/local will cause GKlib to be install in the ~/local tree.