LooPo comes as a gzipped tar archive. It will create a directory called loopo-1.0 where the entire source tree resides. Before compiling LooPo you will have to change the Makefile to suit your local environment.
First, you may want to change LIBDIR and BINDIR. After installation the former will contain Tcl-scripts, examples, documentation and some auxiliary files needed at run time whereas the latter is the location where the binaries will go.
If you do have GNU bash the supported operating systems are automatically determined. Otherwise set the OS variable accordingly. In addition you may want to alter names and paths for the required libraries and the GNU make binary.
Next step is to invoke GNU make by typing
host$ gmake
or whatever it is called on your system. Please note that we do require GNU make; other makes will most likely fail. After a successful compilation you can type
host$ gmake install
which will copy LooPo into LIBDIR and BINDIR. If BINDIR is in your path you start LooPo by invoking it with
host$ loopo
If you have problems compiling LooPo on one of the supported platforms, succeeded on other systems or just have some comments please send mail to loopo@fmi.uni-passau.de.