Gahh! 9 out of 10 times, software made in academia has cool features but awful code/structure/packaging/younameit. In this case, the Linux (!) tarball contains

Gahh! 9 out of 10 times, software made in academia has cool features but awful code/structure/packaging/younameit. In this case, the Linux (!) tarball contains Windows binaries and a handwritten Makefile that is not able to compile even the first source file. What a pity.