Dependencies
The following is the current (as of December 27, 2006) list of direct dependencies for GNUstep.
Note :
- some of these dependencies are dependent of each other (e.g. tiff requires jpeg, and libungif requires freetype2)
- each of these dependencies may require additional libraries, which are not listed here
- the given names may not accurately reflect the actual package name as provided by your system
GNUstep-make
Required
- GCC with ObjC support -- preferably version 4.x
- GNU make -- called gmake or gnumake on some systems
Optional
- gdb -- for debugging
- Window Maker -- this would install a lot of dependencies beforehand
GNUstep-base
Required
- GNUstep-make
- libffi-dev (libffi) currently recommended default or ffcall -- stack-frame handling
Recommended development kit dependencies
- libxml2-dev (xml2) -- for XML-based property-lists
- libxslt1-dev (xslt) -- for style sheet support for use with XML
- libsssl-dev (openssl) -- for HTTPS connections in NSURL
The recommended and optional development kit packages in Debian and Ubuntu will pull in the compiled libraries for you as a dependancy. Selecting only the run-time library will generate a configure warning. If you continue with 'make', then the noted library functionalities will be missing in your final executable.
The remaining references give only the typical library name.
Optional
- libiconv -- Unicode support, only install if not provided by your system. Note the GNU 'C' library (libc6-dev) provides the required functionality on all recent linux systems
- libgmp -- arbitrary precision arithmetic The actual version number is not checked by GNUstep.
- libbfd -- universal "Binary File Descriptor" library, part of GNU binutils
- mDNSResponder -- for Bonjour service discovery, as implemented by NSNetService and NSNetServiceBrowser
GNUstep-gui
Required
- GNUstep-base
- tiff -- TIFF support
Recommended
Optional
- libungif -- for reading and writing GIF images
- aspell -- spell checking
- cups-base -- printing
- libaudiofile -- sound
- portaudio -- sound, needs at least portaudio-v19
GNUstep-back
XLIB
Required
- GNUstep-gui
Recommended
- libXft -- font API
ART
Required
- GNUstep-gui
- freetype2 -- TrueType font rendering engine
- libart_lgpl2 -- 2D graphics supporting
Recommended
- libXft -- font API
CAIRO
Required
- GNUstep-gui
- libart_lgpl2 -- 2D graphics supporting
- glitz -- OpenGL image compositing library
- cairo -- PDF 1.4 imaging model
Recommended
- libXft -- font API
Documentation
- TeTeX / texi2pdf -- if you want to create the API documentation
- texi2html