How to build a package from sources

hi all,
Can someone please give some advices regarding making binaries from sources. I have found that a lot of programs on Snow Leopard can be also run in terminal and are in source form and need to be build. I have installed Xcode already and I have some programming skills as well such as using MinGW (GNU GCC) and VS EE on WinXP. I have never done anything in any UNIX-like system and I know sources need to be just compiled.
Please, give me a link if you have any =)
Regards.

I think you have done something in a UNIX-like system. MinGW is designed to provide a UNIX-line build system with GCC for Windows. Now, however, you have the real thing.
In most cases, all you need to do is extract the source tarbar into a directory (or checkout via CVS or SVN). Go into that directory with the Terminal and type "configure" and, if that goes well, "make", and if that looks good "sudo make install".

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