ISA-L requires yasm version 1.2.0 or later or nasm v2.11.01 or later. Building with autotools requires autoconf/automake packages.
To build and install the library with autotools it is usually sufficient to run the following.
./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install
Other targets include: make check, make tests and make perfs.
On Windows use nmake to build dll and static lib.
nmake -f Makefile.nmake
Other targes include: nmake check.