=== Compiling 64-bit boost static libraries (with -fPIC) ===

Get the Boost 1.57 sources from their website and extract it to somewhere. Run the bootstrap script 
to build the bjam binary:

 ./bootstrap.sh

Then compile the needed libraries:

 bjam release link=static threading=multi address-model=64 runtime-link=static cxxflags='-fPIC' stage /boost/chrono /boost/date_time /boost/filesystem /boost/program_options /boost/regex /boost/system /boost/thread

I had to scrap the various .a files together from the bin.v2 folder, get the following libs and copy them to
darkmod_src/linux/boost/lib64

 libboost_program_options.a
 libboost_regex.a
 libboost_system.a
 libboost_thread.a
 libboost_chrono.a
 libboost_date_time.a
 libboost_filesystem.a

=== Compiling 64-bit PolarSSL with -fPIC ===

PolarSSL is needed by libcurl to download stuff from SSL-secured sites.

Get the polarSSL 1.3.7 from their website.
Get cmake: sudo apt-get install cmake

Add the line to the CMakeLists.txt, after the compiler checks part:

 set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON) 

Then build the library:

 cmake .
 make
 sudo make install

This will place libpolarssl.a in your /usr/local/lib folder. Copy it to linux/polarssl/lib64/

=== Compiling the static libcurl library ===

==== Building the static 32-bit library libcurl ====

Download the libcurl 7.39 source package, and extract it on your system, then run the following commands:

 env CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32" ./configure --disable-ldap --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --without-ssl --with-polarssl --without-libidn --without-zlib --prefix=/home/greebo/curl_install_x86
 make jobs=8
 sudo make install

The library is then located in /home/greebo/curl_install_x86/lib/libcurl.a.
Copy that to darkmod_src/linux/libcurl/

==== Building the static 64-bit library libcurl ====

 Download the libcurl 7.39 source package, and extract it on your system, then run the following commands:

 env CFLAGS="-m64 -fPIC" LDFLAGS="-m64" ./configure --disable-ldap --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --without-ssl --with-polarssl --without-libidn --without-zlib --prefix=/home/greebo/curl_install_x64
 make jobs=8
 make install

The library is then located in /home/greebo/curl_install_x64/lib/libcurl.a.
Copy that to darkmod_src/linux/libcurl/lib64/

== Compiling on OSX ==

The XCode projects are out of date at the moment and will need fixing.

=== Building libcurl in Mac OS X ===

Download the libcurl 7.21 source package, and extract it on your system. To produce a so-called "fat" binary you need to
compile for both i386 and ppc targets.

Build the i386 target by entering:

 env CFLAGS="-m32 -arch i386" LDFLAGS="-m32 -arch i386" ./configure --disable-ldap --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --without-libidn --without-zlib --without-ssl
 make
 sudo make install

After make install the static library can be found in /usr/local/lib/libcurl.a, copy that file to your curl folder 
and rename it to ./libcurl.i386.a

Build the powerpc target by entering:

 env CFLAGS="-m32 -arch ppc" LDFLAGS="-m32 -arch ppc" ./configure --disable-ldap --build=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu --without-libidn --without-zlib --without-ssl
 make
 sudo make install

After make install the static library can be found in /usr/local/lib/libcurl.a, copy that file to your curl folder 
and rename it to ./libcurl.ppc.a

Finally call lipo to combine these two into a fat binary by entering this in your curl folder.

 lipo -arch i386 libcurl.i386.a -arch ppc libcurl.ppc.a -create -output libcurl.a

The filesize of the newly created libcurl.a should be around the sum of the single ppc and i386 libs, you can double-check that.
Copy the libcurl.a into your darkmod_src/macosx/libcurl/ and you're done with this step.

=== Building Boost static libs in Mac OS X ===

Download the boost 1.45 sources and extract them to your hard drive. Create a jam user config file to use the
g++ 4.0 compiler instead of the default gcc 4.2 in Leopard: create a new file in your boost root folder and
name it user-config-darwin.jam:

 using darwin : 8.11 : /usr/bin/g++-4.0 :
     <architecture>"combined"
     <address-model>"32"
     <macosx-version>"10.4"
     <macosx-version-min>"10.4"
     <link>"static"
     <threading>"multi" ;

Download a bjam binary for OS X to your machine, then build boost threads, filesystem and system:

 /path/to/bjam --user-config=../../../user-config-darwin.jam architecture=combined link=static threading=multi address-model=32 release [stage]

The "stage" option only works in filesystem and system (not in thread, as of boost 1.45). You'll find the filesystem and system libs in
the ./stage folder of your boost root, the libboost_thread.a will be located in the bin.v2 folder after compilation. 

Copy all libboost*.a files to darkmod_src/macosx/boost/lib/.