Install Qlift Systemwide

This article will help you install the Qlift APIs onto your system systemwide. This article assumes that you have followed the instructions for acquiring Swift and the other required tools.

Setting User Permissions

The source code for Qlift will need to be pulled into the system at /usr/local/. To accomplish this, do the following:

1. Give staff access by running sudo chown -R root:staff /usr/local/.
2. Add yourself to the staff group by running sudo usermod -a -G staff <userName>, where is your username. Reboot the system for changes to take effect.
3. Finally, run sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/ to give staff access to write files. You may need to reboot here as well.
4. To test, go into the directory and run touch goatfile. If done properly, you should be able to create a goat file without needing root permissions.

Installing Qlift

1. Download Qlift by running the command git clone https://www.github.com/longhanks/qlift-c-api in the usr/local/src/ folder.
2. Install Qlift by running cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr, followed by make; sudo make install.

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