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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..47adc9a4fd67 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" + xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + version="5.0" + xml:id="sec-prerequisites-source"> + +<title>Prerequisites</title> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++11.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Perl 5.8 or higher.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><command>pkg-config</command> to locate + dependencies. If your distribution does not provide it, you can get + it from <link + xlink:href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config" + />.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The bzip2 compressor program and the + <literal>libbz2</literal> library. Thus you must have bzip2 + installed, including development headers and libraries. If your + distribution does not provide these, you can obtain bzip2 from <link + xlink:href="http://www.bzip.org/"/>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The SQLite embedded database library, version 3.6.19 + or higher. If your distribution does not provide it, please install + it from <link xlink:href="http://www.sqlite.org/" />.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The Perl DBI and DBD::SQLite libraries, which are + available from <link + xlink:href="http://search.cpan.org/">CPAN</link> if your + distribution does not provide them.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The <link + xlink:href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/">Boehm + garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluator’s memory + consumption (optional). To enable it, install + <literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm garbage collector, and + pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to + <command>configure</command>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The <command>xmllint</command> and + <command>xsltproc</command> programs to build this manual and the + man-pages. These are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and + <literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively. You also need + the <link + xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/">DocBook + XSL stylesheets</link> and optionally the <link + xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG + schemas</link>. Note that these are only required if you modify the + manual sources or when you are building from the Git + repository.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Recent versions of Bison and Flex to build the + parser. (This is because Nix needs GLR support in Bison and + reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison, you need version 2.6, which + can be obtained from the <link + xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP + server</link>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.35, which is + available on <link + xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>. + Slightly older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the + ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you + modify the parser or when you are building from the Git + repository.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> \ No newline at end of file |