Cannot Compile and Install Library ARGTABLE2 {Solved}

[pz1]

I have installed IPKG following the description on the synology wiki. I was able to install a number of additional packages with it. For one of my projects I need the argtable2 library. Unfortunately there is not (yet?) a package for that. I hope you don't mind that I make this post in the IPKG room. (moderator: feel free to move it)

I tried in vain to compile and install library argtable2 (http://argtable.sourceforge.net/) version 2.13 on my DS212+.
I unpacked the archive into /volume1/public/argtable2-13.
Next I tried to install according to the instrctions of the README, which says:
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The basic compile and install procedure for unix systems is:

$ cd argtable2-x
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check (optional)
$ sudo make install
$ make clean

Remember to update your system's LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the location of the dynamic library (normally /usr/local/lib/).
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At the second command it stops.

DS212> ./configure
-ash: ./configure: not found

I am not at all knowledgeable with linux, so I have no clue what to do next. The configure file looks like script. I made a listing of the directory contents below.

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/volume1/public/argtable2-13
DS212> dir
total 940
drwxrwxrwx 7 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root    4096 May 24 07:41 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   2230 Jan 10  2011 AUTHORS
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   1202 Oct 25  2010 CMakeLists.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  25765 Apr 10  2009 COPYING
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   8579 Jan 10  2011 ChangeLog
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   8037 Apr 10  2009 INSTALL
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   1102 Nov  6  2010 Makefile.am
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  23723 Jan 10  2011 Makefile.in
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users      0 Apr 10  2009 NEWS
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   8104 Nov  6  2010 README
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  34074 Jan 10  2011 aclocal.m4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users    190 Jan 10  2011 argtable2-uninstalled.pc.in
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users    262 Jan 10  2011 argtable2.pc.in
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  45295 Apr 10  2009 config.guess
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  33113 Apr 10  2009 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pz   users 408386 Jan 10  2011 configure
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   2290 Jan 10  2011 configure.ac
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  14345 Apr 10  2009 depcomp
drwxrwxrwx 2 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 doc
drwxrwxrwx 2 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 example
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   7416 Apr 10  2009 install-sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users 251882 Jan 10  2011 ltmain.sh
drwxrwxrwx 2 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 m4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users  10602 Apr 10  2009 missing
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pz   users   2099 Apr 10  2009 mkinstalldirs
drwxrwxrwx 2 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 src
drwxrwxrwx 2 pz   users   4096 May 24 07:41 tests

[pz1]

Solved the problem. I did a stupid thing: Extracted the archive with Winzip from within Windows Explorer view of the Synology directory Doing it properly with tar in a telnet session gave the proper results.

I did use make install instead of sudo make install

Would still be nice if a more knowledgeable person could make it into IPKG