libbfd

EDoc++ uses libbfd for embedding/extracting information into/from binary files to make usage a little simpler. libbfd is part of the GNU binutils package. EDoc++ has been compiled and tested with the libbfd distributed in version 2.15 of the binutils package.

Note: On some systems this may not have a runtime package as it is often built as a static library, in which case it will not be a runtime dependency.

python2.5

The Python interpreter is used for processing the EDoc++ suppressions files (.eds) and also for running the test suite.

libltdl3

The libtool libltdl is used to provide a basis for the EDoc++ plugin framework. This plugin framework allows different output format plugins to be written for the EDoc++ source analysis program.

ldd

This is part of the libc6-dev package on my system. This package should usually already be installed. The particular version of libc is unimportant.

libiconv

This is required on some systems (Particulary Cygwin) by doxygen.

GNU Make

GCC will not compile with many standard make variants. It uses features specific to the GNU version of make and since EDoc++ must compile a modified version of GCC which requires GNU make to build it successfully.

Note: On some systems GNU make is invoked with the command: "gmake"

texinfo

Used by GCC

flex/bison

This is used by doxygen and thus is also a requirement of EDoc++.

binutils-dev

EDoc++ uses libbfd which is part of the GNU binutils package. EDoc++ has been compiled and tested with the libbfd distributed in version 2.15 of the binutils package.

Without this library available libEDocBFD will not be compiled and extracting EDoc++ data embedded directly into binary files will not be possible. You can build without libbfd however this will reduce the functionality of the resulting build. To do so configure the project with the --without-libbfd

python2.5-dev

This will need to be the dev version if your distribution separates out the dev version from the user version. This is because the edoc application embeds a python interpreter and will need to link with the python library directly.

libltdl3-dev

Used to provide output format plugin support to the EDoc++ application.

ldd

This is part of the libc6-dev package on my system. This package should usually already be installed. The particular version of libc is unimportant.

libiconv-dev

Used by doxygen on some systems.

g++, libstdc++,

Required to build any C++ applications from source.

rpmbuild

This tool came from the rpm package on my system. It is used for creating rpm packages.

debuild

This tool is used for building debian packages and was part of the devscripts package. It also required the fakeroot package to be installed to operate correctly.

dh_make

This program is used to simplify the process of creating a debian package. It was found in the dh-make package.

autoconf

automake

libtool

swig >= 1.3.31

Note: Earlier versions of SWIG will generate incorrect wrapper sources.

Python py-xml package

This is used by the main build script in order to update the contents of the EDoc++ manual and man page.

xmlto

This is a small utility used to generate UNIX man pages and HTML documentation from the EDoc++ manual which is maintained in docbook format. It has been tested with xmlto version 0.0.18. Not to use this on cygwin requires you to also install linux-utils. This should be a dependency of the xmlto package but is not.

XML Mind Editor

This can be obtained for free from: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/

To use this you will need to install Sun JRE: sun-java5-jre