How to compile libjit from source
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Libjit is a GNU library which can be used to generate machine code on the fly. You can use this library to add Just-in-Time compilation to your interpreter.
This is the commands that is needed to get latest source and compile this library.
sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install flex sudo apt-get install bison sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install autotools-dev sudo apt-get install autoconf sudo apt-get install libtool sudo apt-get install gcc sudo apt-get install texinfo git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/libjit.git cd libjit ./auto_gen.sh ./configure make make install
The whole process is tested on a bare Ubuntu 15.10 x64 and takes ~5 minutes.