The Suricata build system has created a Makefile that should allow you to build this application in-tree on most supported platforms. To build simply run:
make
A Makefile.example has also been generated to use as an example on how to build against the library in a standalone application.
First build and install the Suricata library including:
make install-library
make install-headers
Then run:
make -f Makefile.example
If you installed to a non-standard location, you need to ensure that
libsuricata-config
is in your path, for example:
PATH=/opt/suricata/bin:$PATH make -f Makefile.example