I want to build a unix dgt driver to try to get my DGT electronic chess board to talk to my mac. 
I downloaded the dgtnix-1.7.tar.gz tarball, then unpacked it in the /sw/dgtnix folder with tar. 
This results in a number of filesand two folders. So far, so good. 

There is no shell script "configure" however and I cannot run configure with the command ./configure. 
In the INSTALL file it says that to use the driver I should simply type 'make'. 
This does'n work. Terminal returns the following lines:

~:/sw/dgtnix MacRuud$ make
rm -f libdgtnix.so.1.6.0 libdgtnix.so libdgtnix.so.1 libdgtnix.so.1.6
gcc -shared -Wall,-soname,libdgtnix.so.1 -o libdgtnix.so.1.6.0 dgtnix.o  
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared'
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libdgtnix.so.1.6.0] Error 1

my questions:
1. Am I right to think that this driver could or should work on the Unix based MacOSX system (running 10.4.8)
2. Should I use Terminal to give the "make" command, and should this be done in the /sw/dgtnix folder
3. What can or should I do to prevent these erromessages ?
4. Should I perhaps better leave installation of tarballs to professionals like you out there ?

More specific info is of course available.

Ruud
Netherlands

Fink installed:
Package manager version: 0.24.26, 
Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc

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