Basic requirements

• A relatively POSIX-compliant *NIX system
  • Cygwin or MinGW can be used on Windows (but there are better options, see below)
• g++ 4.2
• boost 1.56.0
• Runtime libraries for lex and yacc might be needed for the compiler.

Requirements for building from source

• GNU build tools:
  • autoconf 2.65
  • automake 1.13
  • libtool 1.5.24
• pkg-config autoconf macros (pkg.m4)
• lex and yacc (developed primarily with flex and bison)
• libssl-dev

Requirements for building the compiler from source on Windows

• Visual Studio C++
• Flex and Bison (e.g. the WinFlexBison package)

Language requirements

These are only required if you choose to build the libraries for the given language

• C++
  • Boost 1.56.0
  • libevent (optional, to build the nonblocking server)
  • zlib (optional)
  • Qt (optional)
• Java
  • Java 1.8
  • Gradle
• C#: Mono 1.2.4 (and pkg-config to detect it) or Visual Studio 2005+
• Python 2.6 (including header files for extension modules)
• PHP 5.0 (optionally including header files for extension modules)
• Ruby 1.8
  • bundler gem
• Erlang R12 (R11 works but not recommended)
• Perl 5
  • Bit::Vector
  • Class::Accessor
• Haxe 3.1.3
• Go 1.4
• Delphi 2010