leleliu008
commented
2 years ago I think we can add following in our README.md
dependencies
| tool | required? | purpose | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| automake | required | for generating Makefile.in from Makefile.am |
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| autoconf | required | for generating configure script |
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| pkg-config>=0.18 | required | for finding libraries | pkgconf can be installed as a alternative. |
| gmake | required | for doing jobs that read from Makefile |
bmake is not supported. |
| python>=3.5 | optional | for providing a runtime for docutils |
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| docutils | optional | for generating manpages | if can't found, manpages will not be installed. |
| library | required? | purpose | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| libiconv | optional | text coding convert support. | this library have been already included in some platform. |
| pcre2 | optional | regex support | default regex library is gnulib-regex which is included in our source code. if you want to use pcre2, you should know the differences between POSIX Regular Expresion syntax and Perl5 Regular Expresion syntax. |
| libxml2 | optional | XML support | |
| libyaml | optional | YAML support | |
| jansson | optional | JSON support | |
| libseccomp | optional | sandbox support | only available on GNU/Linux |
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