Requirements

  • POSIX thread (pthreads) final draft support. Most operating systems support pthreads natively, however FreeBSD in particular does not completely support the final draft. To build using FreeBSD, see the README.FREEBSD file included in the main distribution.
  • Thread-safe X11 libraries. Again, most operating systems have no problem with this, but if you are using libc5 under Linux (ie you get "Fatal IO Error" when starting Licq) you will have to make sure that you are using thread-safe libraries.
  • C++. A C++ compiler and libstdc++ plus c++ headers are also required.
  • GNU Make. Comes with BSD and Linux, others will have to install it.
  • Boost C++ Libraries >= 1.31.1. Portable and very useful C++ libraries, see http://www.boost.org/ for more information.
  • Qt3 >= 3.0.0 (libraries and developement headers). (Required for Qt-Gui plugin only) Check out http://www.trolltech.com/ for more information.
  • Qt4 >= 4.3.2 (libraries and developement headers). (Required for Qt4-Gui plugin only) Check out http://www.trolltech.com/ for more information.
  • CMake >= 2.4.2. (Required for Qt4-Gui plugin only) A cross platform build tool, see http://www.cmake.org/ for more information.

Optional

  • !OpenSSL for secure connection support
  • GpgMe for GPG support