Installing libnoise: 1. Make! CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer ...options of choice...' make Using compiler optimizations for libnoise is *strongly recommended*. Using the unoptimized library is roughly a fifth as fast as using -O3 on my test computer. 2. Install! The 'include' directory should be copied to your software include directory, usually /usr/local/include, with an appropriate name. I use cp -R include /usr/local/include/noise Similarly, the *contents* of the 'lib' directory should go into your library directory (usually /usr/local/lib). Once you've done that, run 'ldconfig', then make a symlink from LIBDIR/libnoise.so to LIBDIR/libnoise.so.0. I use: cp lib/* /usr/local/lib ldconfig ln -s /usr/local/lib/libnoise.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libnoise.so At this point, you should be able to include libnoise in your projects using #include and g++ ...options... -lnoise At some point we'll automate this process.