-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 |virt-df |Windows
- |examples, |manpages | | | |version
- |mlvirsh | | | | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
- GNU make | R | R | R | R | R | R
- | | | | | |
- gcc | R | | R | R | R | R
- | | | | | |
- libvirt | R | | R | R | R | R
- | >= 0.2.1 | | | | |
- | | | | | |
- ocaml | R | | R | R | R | R
- | >= 3.08 | | | | >= 3.10 |
- | | | | | |
- findlib | HR | R | HR | HR | HR | Note [1]
- | | | | | |
- ocaml-gettext | O | O | O | O | O | Note [2]
- | | | | | |
- MinGW + MSYS | | | | | | R
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
- ocamldoc | | R | | | | O
- | | | | | |
- perldoc | | O | | | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
- ocaml-curses | | | R | | |
- | | | | | |
- Extlib | | | R | | R |
- | | | | | |
- xml-light | | | O | | R |
- | | | | | |
- ocaml-calendar| | | O | | |
- | | | | | |
- ocaml CSV | | | O | | |
- | | | | | |
- bitmatch | | | | | R |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
- GTK2 | | | | R | | O
- | | | | | |
- lablgtk2 | | | | R | | O
- | | | | >= 2.10.0| |
- ocaml-dbus | | | | O | |
- | | | | >= 0.06 | |
- gnome-icon-theme | | | O | |
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
- NSIS | | | | | | O
- --------------+----------+---------+---------+----------+----------+------
-
- R = required
- HR = highly recommended (use if possible)
- O = optional (just improves functionality, but not required)
- n/a = not available
-
-Note [1]: Findlib was recently ported to Windows and in future we may
-require it because it will let us remove a lot of hacks from the
-Makefiles.
-
-Note [2]: It's not clear if ocaml-gettext works on Windows.
-
-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'
-
- ocaml-gettext from http://www.le-gall.net/sylvain+violaine/ocaml-gettext.html
- + patch for OCaml 3.10:
- http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml-gettext-0.2.0-20080321.patch
- (This should appear in ocaml-gettext 0.3.0 shortly).
-
- 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