Preface
This document is part of the LiveSupport
project, Copyright © 2004 Media
Development Loan Fund, under the GNU GPL.
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Scope
This document lists the development tools that are expected to be on a
system that intends to compile and develop LiveSupport.
Introduction
LiveSupport expects a generic development environment on the system to
be built, which is basically a generic install of a POSIX-compliant
operating system, with a set of GNU development tools and some
utilities.
Tools
The following tools are expected on the development system:
Libraries
Note that if you are installing these libraries as binary packages, then you
will need to install the "development" package, as well. (For example, for
libpng, you might need to install the libpng and
libpng-dev packages. The package names vary by distribution.)
Required libraries
The following development libraries are expected on the development
system:
Recommended libraries
The following libraries are used by LiveSupport. If they are not found
on the system, LiveSupport will compile them from sources on its own.
While having these libraries is not necessary, Compiling takes longer
without them, and the generated LiveSupport directory will be larger as
well.