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authorDavid Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>2009-06-24 15:15:29 (GMT)
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Doc: List the Debian/Ubuntu packages required to build Qt for X11.
Reviewed-by: Trust Me
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@@ -595,7 +595,9 @@ in the \l{Qt for Windows CE Requirements} document.
\endraw
The QtGui module and the QtCore module, which provides the non-GUI features required
- by QtGui, depend on the libraries described in the following table.
+ by QtGui, depend on the libraries described in the following table. To build
+ Qt from its source code, you will also need to install the development
+ packages for these libraries for your system.
\table 90%
\header \o Name \o Library \o Notes \o Configuration options \o Minimum working version
@@ -653,6 +655,28 @@ in the \l{Qt for Windows CE Requirements} document.
\note You must compile with XRender support to get alpha transparency
support for pixmaps and images.
+ Development packages for these libraries contain header files that are used
+ when building Qt from its source code. On Debian-based GNU/Linux systems,
+ for example, we recommend that you install the following development
+ packages:
+
+ \list
+ \o libfontconfig1-dev
+ \o libfreetype6-dev
+ \o libx11-dev
+ \o libxcursor-dev
+ \o libxext-dev
+ \o libxfixes-dev
+ \o libxft-dev
+ \o libxi-dev
+ \o libxrandr-dev
+ \o libxrender-dev
+ \endlist
+
+ Some of these packages depend on others in this list, so installing one
+ may cause others to be automatically installed. Other distributions may
+ provide system packages with similar names.
+
\section1 Phonon Dependencies
As described in the \l{Phonon Overview}, Phonon uses the GStreamer multimedia