How to compile tmux

tmux libevent

NOTE: I am using bash for this.

NOTE2: Another approach for getting tmux would be to use gentoo-prefix or netbsd's pkgsrc. I 
didn't have too much luck with gentoo-prefix. NetBSD was pretty straight forward but it had
an old version of tmux (1.1).

Here is how to get tmux compiled if you can get your systadmins to installed it ... or
any other weird reason. I assume you have some basic libraries and headers installed (like
ncurses, etc...). If not, you'll have to compile those ones too.

1. download libevent. notice that it seems you need 1.4.14-stable. tmux seems to require that
one specifically

2. Untar the tarball and configure (specify a prefix so you can later do make install).

3. Compile and do make install.

4. Download tmux

5. untar the tarball and change the configure (go to the part of your OS, in my
case it was linux--- Use uname to find out):

CFLAGS+= -std=c99 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/stornext/snfs1/next-gen/drio-scratch/tmux/libevent-1.4.14b-stable

Notice the -I. We are telling the compiler where to look to find the headers

Also, change the config.mk to have:

LIBS+= -L/stornext/snfs1/next-gen/drio-scratch/tmux/local/lib -lncurses -lcrypt -lutil  -levent -lrt

Notice the -L. We are telling the linker where to find the libraries.

6. do a make. You should have now the tmux binary.

7. Make sure you set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have the path to your libevent lib:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/hgsc/boost_libs/lib:/stornext/snfs1/next-gen/drio-scratch/tmux/local/lib

8. Enjoy tmux.