Linux .tar.bz2 packages are made by building the executable, stripping it and packing the directory with needed files. I usually hand-edit Makefile and change the paths, so that user can simply type: make install after unpacking it. We will just build a special version of wxWidgets, just for the purpose of FR release. Some other libs. may also have different versions, but wxWidgets has own version of those, so here's a configure line for wxWidgets: ./configure --disable-debug --disable-shared --enable-unicode \ --with-libjpeg=builtin --with-libtiff=builtin --with-expat=builtin \ --with-libpng=builtin --with-zlib=builtin