Dependencies for 3.0 and earlier versions

Before you start you should check whether you have got all the building tools and prerequisite packages:

• C and C++ compilers (one of the following):
  • gcc and g++, version 4.2+ (Note that these might come in several packages)
  • clang, version 3.2+
• C++ Library (one of the following):
  • GNU C++ Library. (On Linux this is usually already in the base system, or comes with gcc)
  • libc++, might come with LLVM/clang (supported since polymake version 3.0)

• XML processing tools: libxml2, libxslt (both being standard components of Gnome environment)

• GNU Readline & History library v5.0+

• Perl 5.10.0+, with all of the following modules:
  • ExtUtils::Embed, which some distributions ship separately as perl-ExtUtils-Embed
  • XML::LibXML, XML::LibXSLT, and XML::Writer
  • Term::ReadLine::Gnu
  • Term::ReadKey (only for the development version of polymake)

• GMP library 4.2.0+ . Some Linux vendors split the GMP in two packages, shared libraries and development stuff. Please install both. You also need to enable/install the C++ bindings for polymake version 2.11+.
• MPFR library 3.0.0+ . Again both shared libraries and development stuff are required.