3.2 Requirements

GMediaServer is written to work on modern POSIX compatible systems, mainly the GNU system. It has been tested on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

The following programs are required to build GMediaServer:

• GNU C Compiler (gcc), 2.95 or later.

  GMediaServer uses some features specific to gcc 2.95, such as macros with variable number of arguments. The GNU C Compiler is part of the GNU Compiler Collection which can be downloaded from http://gcc.gnu.org/. In Debian and many other distributions the package is called gcc.

The following libraries are required to build and run GMediaServer:

• Linux SDK for UPnP Devices (libupnp), 1.2.1 or later, or

  Portable SDK for UPnP Devices (libupnp 1.6.0), 1.6.0 or later

  The libupnp library is used for communication using the UPnP protocol. libupnp can be downloaded from http://upnp.sourceforge.net/. libupnp 1.6.0 and later can be downloaded from http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/.

  Debian packages for libupnp are available in stable since the Sarge release. The runtime package is called libupnp0 (or libupnp2), and the package required when building is libupnp-dev.

• libmagic from file ("The Fine Free File Command"), 4.02 or later

  The libmagic library is used to identify the contents of files. It is part of file, which can be downloaded from http://www.darwinsys.com/file/.

  Debian packages for libmagic are available in stable since the Sarge release. The runtime package is called libmagic1, and the package required when building libmagic-dev. In other distributions libmagic may be included in the file package.

The following libraries are optional:

• ID3v1/ID3v2 Tagging Library (id3lib), 3.8 or later

  This library allows GMediaServer to retrieve ID3 information from MP3 files. id3lib can be downloaded from http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/.

  The Debian package for id3lib is currently available in stable (Sarge) and is called libid3-3.8.3. In testing and unstable, the packages is libid3-3.8.3c2a. libid3-3.8.3-dev will be used when building GMediaServer.

• TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (taglib), 1.4 or later, C bindings

  This library is similar to id3lib in that it retrieves information from audio files. TagLib can be downloaded from http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html. Note that the C binding are used.

  The Debian package for TagLib is available in stable (Sarge) and is called libtagc0. libtagc0-dev will be used when building GMediaServer.

• libuuid from Ext2 Filesystem Utilities (E2fsprogs), 1.36 or later

  E2fsprogs includes libuuid, which GMediaServer uses to generate universally unique ids (UUIDs). A UUID is generated every time GMediaServer is started and will be used by other devices to refer to the media server. libuuid is not required - if not detected by the configure script, it will be built from code included in the GMediaServer source code package (subdirectory uuid). E2fsprogs can be downloaded from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/.

  The Debian package for libuuid is available in stable (Sarge) and is called libuuid1. uuid-dev will be used when building GMediaServer.

A number of programs are required to build GMediaServer using code from CVS only. Please see the DEPENDENCIES file from Gnulib for a complete list of dependencies.