Installation of System Dependencies

[under construction]

Luadist requires the presence of Git and CMake on the system. Instructions for installing both of them, depending on your operation system, follow below.

Linux

Needed packages: libc-dev, gcc, g++, make, cmake, git

Installation:

To install these packages, you can use any system tool (apt-get, aptitude, yum, pacman...), depending on the distribution you use. For example, on Ubuntu Linux you can use: sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git

OS X

[todo]

Microsoft Windows

C and C++ compilers

We will use compilers from MinGW project.

Installation:

• Download the installer from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download and execute it.
• When the installer offers an option to update the repository catalogues, choose that option:


• In the Select Components dialog, choose both C and C++ compilers:


After the successful installation, you need to add the path to MinGW to your system PATH variable, so that it can be accessed from the command line.

• In the item System of the Control Panel. Go to the tab Advanced and open the item Environment Variables:


• In the part System variables locate the variable Path and add a string ;C:\MinGW\bin at the end. Do not change the preceding values, just add this one to the end and then save the changes:


CMake

Installation:

• Download the latest binary installer from http://cmake.org/HTML/Download.html#latest, concretely Windows (Win32 Installer) and execute it.
• When installer offers an option to add CMake to the system PATH variable, choose that option:


Git

As the git installation, we will use the installer Git for Windows from the project msysGit.

Installation:

• Download the installer from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3&q=full+installer+official+git and execute it.
• When the installer offers a selection of components to install, don't change everything, but the Additional icons options:


• When the installer offers an options to adjusting the PATH environment, select the option Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt: