create environment variable TXPP_HOME to point where txpp is. TXPP_HOME="/home/damitha/txpp" export TXPP_HOME Now cd $TXPP_HOME/lib to build sh build.sh This will install libtxpp.so in $TXPP_HOME/lib To build and run the samples set environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to TXPP_HOME/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TXPP_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH cd $TXPP_HOME/examples sh build_test1.sh sh build_test2.sh to run sh run_test1.sh sh run_test2.sh