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Updating the description about installing in README and/or autotools.rst #3354

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masatake opened this issue Apr 15, 2022 · 5 comments
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This tracks the status of some issues and pull-requests about the topic

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leleliu008 commented Apr 17, 2022

I think we can add following in our README.md

dependencies

tool required? purpose note
automake required for generating Makefile.in from Makefile.am
autoconf required for generating configure script
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
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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leleliu008 commented Apr 17, 2022

Screenshot from 2022-04-17 12-59-06

here libtool is motioned, actually, libtool is not used in our project.

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maybe change from on GNU/Linux, OSX, or Windows 10 WSL, to on Unix-like sysytem or environment is better.

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supporting systems and subsystems

system subsystem testing in our CI testing config
Ubuntu 18.04 , 20.04 link
AlplineLinux 3.12 , 3.13 , 3.14 , 3.15 link
FreeBSD 13.0 link
OpenBSD 6.9 link
NetBSD 9.2 link
macOS 10.15 , 11.0 link
Windows Cygwin latest version link
Windows MSYS2 latest version link
Windows WSL no testing
Windows link
Android Termux link

Note: All GNU/Linux systems are supported, here we list only that are testing in our CI.

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@leleliu008, thank you for updating.

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