-
-Requirements
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-
-PLEASE NOTE: The list of requirements looks long but you DO NOT NEED
-all of these packages, so pay careful attention to what is required
-('R') and what is optional ('O').
-
-ALSO NOTE: Binaries are available for many platforms. You only need
-the packages below if you want to build from source.
-
- W h a t y o u w a n t t o b u i l d
-
- |Bindings, |Docs, |virt-top |virt-ctrl |Windows
- |examples, |manpages | | |version
- |mlvirsh | | | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
- GNU make | R | R | R | R | R
- | | | | |
- gcc | R | | R | R | R
- | | | | |
- libvirt | R | | R | R | R
- | >= 0.2.1 | | | |
- | | | | |
- ocaml | R | | R | R | R
- | >= 3.08 | | | |
- | | | | |
- findlib | HR | R | HR | HR | n/a
- | | | | |
- MinGW + MSYS | | | | | R
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
- ocamldoc | | R | | | O
- | | | | |
- perldoc | | O | | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
- ocaml-curses | | | R | |
- | | | | |
- Extlib | | | R | |
- | | | | |
- xml-light | | | O | |
- | | | | |
- ocaml-calendar| | | O | |
- | | | | |
- ocaml CSV | | | O | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
- GTK2 | | | | R | O
- | | | | |
- lablgtk2 | | | | R | O
- | | | | |
- ocaml-dbus | | | | O |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
- NSIS | | | | | O
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+---------
-
- R = required
- HR = highly recommended (use if possible)
- O = optional (just improves functionality, but not required)
- n/a = not available
-
-Where to get the packages:
-
- libvirt >= 0.2.1 from http://libvirt.org/ (get the latest version available)
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
-
- ocaml >= 3.08 from http://caml.inria.fr/
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
-
- findlib from http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora as 'ocaml-findlib'
-
- MinGW + MSYS from http://www.mingw.org/ (only needed for Windows)
-
- ocamldoc part of OCaml itself
- or part of the ocaml package in Debian, Ubuntu
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-ocamldoc'
-
- perldoc part of Perl
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
-
- ocaml-curses from http://www.nongnu.org/ocaml-tmk/
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu as 'libcurses-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-curses-devel'
-
- Extlib from http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/
- or packaged in Debian, Unbuntu as 'libextlib-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-extlib-devel'
-
- xml-light from http://tech.motion-twin.com/doc/xml-light/
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu as 'libxml-light-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-xml-light-devel'
-
- ocaml CSV from http://merjis.com/developers/csv
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu as 'libcsv-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-csv-devel'
-
- ocaml-calendar from http://www.lri.fr/~signoles/prog.en.html
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu as 'libcalendar-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-calendar-devel'
-
- GTK2 from http://gtk.org/
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
-
- lablgtk2 from http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/lsl/lablgtk.html
- or packaged in Debian, Ubuntu as 'liblablgtk2-ocaml-dev'
- or packaged in Fedora as 'ocaml-lablgtk-devel'
-
- ocaml-dbus from http://tab.snarc.org/projects/ocaml_dbus/
- or packaged in Fedora 9 as 'ocaml-dbus-devel'
- (not yet available for Debian or Ubuntu AFAIK)
-
- NSIS from http://nsis.sf.net