Programs and libraries needed for successful build

Name	Name of binary package	Description
​glibc	glibc-headers	Main GNU C Library
​gcc	gcc	GNU C Compiler
​make	make	Utility for building and linking programs and libraries
​autoconf	autoconf	Utility for automatic configuration of the source tree before the build process starts
​automake	automake	Utility for automatic Makefile creation
​libtool	libtool	Helper for creating shared libraries
​glib >= 2.8	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
​slang	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	gettext	Multilanguage support
​cvs	cvs	Concurrent Versions System. Needed for 'autopoint' (from 'gettext' package)
​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