Requirements
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-To build the bindings, examples, and mlvirsh (required):
-
- GNU make, gcc
- libvirt >= 0.2.1 (from http://libvirt.org/,
- get the latest version if you can)
- ocaml >= 3.08 (from http://caml.inria.fr/)
-
-Optional, but highly recommended:
-
- findlib (from http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/)
-
-To build the OCaml interface documentation (optional):
-
- ocamldoc (part of OCaml itself)
-
-To build virt-top (optional):
-
- ocaml-curses (from http://www.nongnu.org/ocaml-tmk/)
- Extlib (from http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/)
- xml-light (from http://tech.motion-twin.com/doc/xml-light/)
- ocaml CSV library (from http://merjis.com/developers/csv)
- ocaml-calendar (http://www.lri.fr/~signoles/prog.en.html)
-
- [Only ocaml-curses and Extlib are required for building virt-top.
- The other packages are not required, but you will get reduced
- functionality].
-
-To build virt-ctrl (optional):
-
- GTK2 (from http://gtk.org/)
- lablgtk2 (from http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/lsl/lablgtk.html)
-
-To build the manpages (optional):
-
- perldoc (part of Perl)
-
-To build a Windows installer (optional):
-
- NSIS (http://nsis.sf.net)
-
-OCaml packages are available for Fedora 7 and above (ocaml,
-ocaml-findlib, ocaml-findlib-devel, ocaml-ocamldoc, ocaml-extlib,
-ocaml-extlib-devel, ocaml-lablgtk, ocaml-lablgtk-devel, ocaml-curses,
-ocaml-xml-light, ocaml-csv).
-
- http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/OCaml
-
-Debian/Ubuntu have all the packages you require.
+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
Building
make doc # Build HTML documentation in html/ subdirectory.
-Then have a look at the programs 'mlvirsh.opt' and 'virt-ctrl.opt'.
+Then have a look at the programs 'mlvirsh.opt', 'virt-top.opt'
+and 'virt-ctrl.opt'.
Note: If you want to run the programs without first installing, you
may need to set your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable so it
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