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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 evaluators 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>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>