Difference between revisions of "Documentation/Building Guide/Linux Build Requirements"

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Make sure that your system meets the following build requirements.

Hardware Requirements

• 1 or more reasonable fast CPUs, x-way CPU's recommended.

• 1 GB Ram ( 2 GB recommended )

• 10 GB free disk space

Software Requirements

• glibc: for OOo<=3.1: 2.2.x or higher , for OOo>3.1: 2.3.2 or higher

• C/C++ Compiler: OpenOffice.org has been successfully build on Linux with gcc versions greater 3.3.x. Currently "officially used" GCC version is 4.2.3

• The X11 development libraries and header files should be installed. Should be in place with most Linux distributions. Note the there are currently some issues with X version 4.3

• PAM (should come with most Linux distributions). You must install the development package for your distribution.

• Shell: either bash or csh are supported.

• The gpc general polygon clipper library release 2.31, located at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/. Download and unpack the tarball. You should have the files gpc.c and gpc.h in $SRC_ROOT/external/gpc.

• GTK - If you enable the crash reporter in configure then you need the gtk 2, jpeg and tiff development libraries.