requirements to build: you need these on your system: libpng libz to build: run make to install run make install Troubleshooting If you don't realize how to install splint, remove that row from the Makefile. You propably have the libs already installed but if not try to get the from your distribution and secondly from: zlib : http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ libpng : http://www.libpng.org/