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[82.229.165.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hv4sm10262550wib.0.2012.11.11.05.15.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:15:33 -0800 (PST) From: Samuel Martin To: buildroot@busybox.net Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:14:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1352639701-27829-11-git-send-email-s.martin49@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.0 In-Reply-To: <1352639701-27829-1-git-send-email-s.martin49@gmail.com> References: <1352639701-27829-1-git-send-email-s.martin49@gmail.com> Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/23] manual: add prerequisite.txt X-BeenThere: buildroot@busybox.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net Sender: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin create mode 100644 docs/manual/prerequisite.txt diff --git a/docs/manual/prerequisite.txt b/docs/manual/prerequisite.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b24731f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/prerequisite.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +// -*- mode:doc -*- ; + +[[requirement]] +System requirements +------------------- + +Buildroot is design to run on Linux system. + +Buildroot needs some software to be already installed on the host +system; hereafter the lists of the mandatory and optional packages +(package names may vary between distributions). + +Take care of _installing both runtime and development data_, especially +for the libraries that may be packaged in 2 distinct packages. + + +[[requirement-mandatory]] + +Mandatory packages +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Build tools: + +** +which+ +** +sed+ +** +make+ (version 3.82 or any later) +** +binutils+ +** +build-essential+ (only for Debian based systems) +** +gcc+ (version 2.95 or any later) +** `g++` (version 2.95 or any later) +** +bash+ +** +gawk+ +** +bison+ +** +flex+ +** +gettext+ +** +patch+ +** +gzip+ +** +bzip2+ +** +perl+ +** +tar+ +** +cpio+ +** +python+ (version 2.6 or 2.7) +** +unzip+ +** +rsync+ + +* Source fetching tools: +** +wget+ + +* Configuration interface dependencies (requires development libraries): +** +ncurses5+ + +[[requirement-optional]] + +Optional packages +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Source fetching tools: ++ +In the official tree, most of the package sources are retrieved +using +wget+, few are only available through their +git+, +mercurial+, +or +svn+ repository. ++ +All other source fetching methods are implemented and may be used in a +development context. ++ +** +bazaar+ +** +cvs+ +** +git+ +** +mercurial+ +** +rsync+ +** +scp+ +** +subversion+ + +* Configuration interface dependencies (requires development libraries): +** +qt4+ to use the 'xconfig' interface +** +glib2+, +gtk2+ and +glade2+ to use the 'gconfig' interface + +* Development libraries: +** +zlib1+ +** +netpbm10+ (for +fbtest+) +** +python-xcbgen+ (for +Matchbox+ on Debian based system) + +* Documentation generation tools: +** +asciidoc+ diff --git a/docs/manual/starting-up.txt b/docs/manual/starting-up.txt index 8ba16c9..2999fd4 100644 --- a/docs/manual/starting-up.txt +++ b/docs/manual/starting-up.txt @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Starting up =========== +include::prerequisite.txt[] + include::getting.txt[] include::using.txt[]