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-<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 Autoconf
- (<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/"/>)
- and the autoconf-archive macro collection
- (<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/"/>).
- These are only needed to run the bootstrap script, and are not necessary
- if your source distribution came with a pre-built
- <literal>./configure</literal> script.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Bash Shell. The <literal>./configure</literal> script
- relies on bashisms, so Bash is required.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++17.</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 OpenSSL library to calculate cryptographic hashes.
- If your distribution does not provide it, you can get it from <link
- xlink:href="https://www.openssl.org"/>.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>The <literal>libbrotlienc</literal> and
- <literal>libbrotlidec</literal> libraries to provide implementation
- of the Brotli compression algorithm. They are available for download
- from the official repository <link
- xlink:href="https://github.com/google/brotli" />.</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="https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184756/http://www.bzip.org/"
- />.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><literal>liblzma</literal>, which is provided by
- XZ Utils. If your distribution does not provide this, you can
- get it from <link xlink:href="https://tukaani.org/xz/"/>.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>cURL and its library. If your distribution does not
- provide it, you can get it from <link
- xlink:href="https://curl.haxx.se/"/>.</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 <link
- xlink:href="http://www.hboehm.info/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 <literal>boost</literal> library of version
- 1.66.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the official web site
- <link xlink:href="https://www.boost.org/" />.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>The <literal>editline</literal> library of version
- 1.14.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the its repository
- <link xlink:href="https://github.com/troglobit/editline" />.</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>
-
- <listitem><para>The <literal>libseccomp</literal> is used to provide
- syscall filtering on Linux. This is an optional dependency and can
- be disabled passing a <option>--disable-seccomp-sandboxing</option>
- option to the <command>configure</command> script (Not recommended
- unless your system doesn't support
- <literal>libseccomp</literal>). To get the library, visit <link
- xlink:href="https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp"
- />.</para></listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</section>