Programs and libraries needed for successful build

Name	Name of binary package	Description
​glibc	glibc-headers	Main GNU C Library
​uClibc	uclibc-source (deb)	Alternative to glibc for embedded or lean systems like OpenWrt or Freetz
​musl	musl-dev (deb) musl-devel (rpm)	Alternative to glibc
​gcc	gcc	GNU C Compiler
​clang	clang	Alternative to GCC
​make	make	Utility for building and linking programs and libraries
​autoconf >= 2.64	autoconf	Utility for automatic configuration of the source tree before the build process starts
​automake >= 1.14	automake	Utility for automatic Makefile creation
​libtool	libtool	Helper for creating shared libraries
​glib2 >= 2.32	libglib2.0-dev (deb) glib2-devel (rpm)	Cross-platform library with the implementations of many basic algorithms
​pcre	libpcre3-dev (deb) pcre-devel (rpm)	Library for PERL-compatible regular expressions support. Needed if glib version is lower than 2.14
​slang2	libslang2-dev (deb) slang2-devel (rpm)	Powerfull cross-platform library for text console manipulation. This library is alternative to the ncurses library
​ncurses	libncurses-dev (deb) ncurses-devel (rpm)	Yet another library for working with text console. May be replaced with S-Lang2
​gettext >= 0.18.2	gettext, autopoint (deb) gettext-devel (rpm)	Multilanguage support
​pkgconfig	pkgconfig	Utility for automatically getting the linker and compiler flags right to successfully link against other libraries and programs
​gpm	libgpm-dev (deb) gpm-devel (rpm)	General purpose mouse library for console
​libssh2 >=1.2.8	libssh2-1-dev (deb) libssh2-devel (rpm)	Client-side C library implementing the SSH2 protocol
​aspell	libaspell-dev (deb) aspell-devel (rpm)	Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
​e2fsprogs >=1.42.4	libext2fs-dev (deb) e2fsprogs-devel (rpm)	Library implementing ext{2,3,4}fs support