Build Dependencies

Stellarium needs a few things to be installed on your system before you can build it.

Dependency	Ubuntu package name	Notes
Automake	automake1.9	website. Not required >= Stellarium v0.9.0 - we now use CMake.
Autoconf	autoconf	website. Not required >= Stellarium v0.9.0 - we now use CMake.
CMake	cmake	website. Required >= Stellarium 0.9.0. Get version 2.4-patch 6 or higher of CMake.
GNU C Compiler	gcc	Or compatible alternative.
GNU C++ Compiler	g++	Or compatible alternative.
gettext	gettext
Open GL	libgl1-mesa-dev
GLU	libglu1-mesa-dev
SDL	libsdl-dev	website
Zlib	zlib1g-dev	website
PNG	libpng12-dev	website
Freetype	libfreetype6-dev	website.
Boost C++ Libraries	libboost-dev	Since about 2006-08-28
JPEG libraries	libjpeg62-dev	New in version 0.9.x
Curl library	libcurl3-dev	New in version 0.9.x
QT 4.2 library	libqt4-dev	New in version 0.9.x. You must make sure that if you have alternatives for QT development tools for QT3, that you set up your alternatives to point at the QT4 versions of the tools (moc etc.). Since SVN revision 2162, QT is required, not just an optional dependency.
Doxygen	doxygen	Optional. If you want to build the API documentation you will need this.
Graphviz	graphviz	Optional. If you want to build the API document and include fancy class diagrams, you will need this.
SDL-mixer	libsdl-mixer1.2-dev	Optional. If you want to enable audio features in scripting.
Subversion	subversion	Optional. Only necessary if you want to build the latest development version (not the "release" versions).

This list is getting quite long... We hope to remove some dependencies after the 0.9.0 release.

Linux users: if your distribution separates libraries into normal and development version, make sure you get the development ones (e.g. in Debian/Ubuntu, the ...-dev packages). Ubuntu Feisty users can install all these dependencies in one go by running this command in a terminal:

sudo aptitude install build-essential libfreetype6-dev cvs libsdl-mixer1.2-dev \
     libpng12-dev libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev gcc \
     g++ gettext libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev  libjpeg-dev libcurl3-dev \
     libboost-filesystem-dev subversion libqt4-dev graphviz doxygen cmake

Ubuntu Dapper users (long term support release), you will have to download and build CMake first - the version of CMake from the Dapper repositories is too old.