-(This file was created from
-http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2009-05-22)
+(This file was created from
+https://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2013-03-31)
-===== Building =====
+====== Installing from source ======
==== Dependencies ====
There are a couple of libraries which Prosody needs installed before
you can build it. These are:
+ * lua5.1: The Lua 5.1 interpreter
* liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library
* libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL
* libidn11: GNU libidn library, version 1.1
-Both of these can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages:
+These can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages: lua5.1
liblua5.1-dev libidn11-dev libssl-dev
+On Mandriva try: urpmi lua liblua-devel libidn-devel libopenssl-devel
+
On other systems... good luck, but please let me know of the best way
of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here.
./configure --ostype=PRESET
-Where PRESET can currently be one of: debian, macosx
+Where PRESET can currently be one of: 'debian', 'macosx' or (in 0.8
+and later) 'freebsd'
==== make ====
Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run: