Installation of System Dependencies

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Luadist requires the presence of C compiler, Git (any recent version) and CMake (at least of version 2.8.4) on the system. For installation of some modules distributed by Luadist, C++ compiler can also be required. For installation instructions depending on your operation system, see below.

Linux (and other Unixes)

On most Linux systems, C and C++ compilers, make, cmake and git are required. The packages that need to be installed depend on the concrete Linux distribution:

• On Debian based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint...), packages libc-dev, gcc, g++, make, cmake and git are needed and you can use the command: sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git to install them from the command line.

• On Red Hat based distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS...) the required packages can be installed with the command: sudo yum install make gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake git

However, you can use any other package management tool (e.g. aptitude, zypper, pacman...), depending on the distribution you use.

OS X

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Microsoft Windows

We are describing an installation on Windows XP here, but it should be very similar for other versions of Windows as well.

C and C++ compilers

As C and C++ compilers, we will use the ones provided by 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 an option to add it for all users:


Git

To install Git, 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: