Can't find/run `configure` script on mac os 10.8 I'm trying to install a program called CSIM (neural micro circuit simulator) and one of the steps is as follows: 


  Step 2. Run:
  configure; make; for Linux/Unix(/Mac OS)


But I can't run, not even find, the configure script.
I've already installed Xcode and command line tools.

Can anybody help me?
That's the typical sequence of build steps for many cross-platform Open Source projects.

The configure command should be part of your downloaded package, so assuming your package is called CsimOSS you should


open up your Terminal
change to the CsimOSS folder (e.g. cd + dropping the folder into the Terminal window)
enter ./configure


The ./ in front of configure tells the shell to look for the command in the current directory (which is usually not in the standard search PATHs for security reasons).