Requirements for building

Recommended build requirements per distribution

Minimum requirement

• GLib >= 2.8
  
• GObject
  
• A POSIX system that supports a libc with mmap, pthread

Optional requirements

For extra features

• SSL/TLS encryption & authentication
  
  • OpenSSL SSL (for RFC 2595 & RFC 2487) .. or
    
  • Mozilla NSS + NSPR for SMIME (RFC 2311) & SSL (for RFC 2595 & RFC 2487)
    
  • Kerberos 4 or 5

Platform specific

• NetworkManager
  
• Gecko, GtkMozEmbed
  
• Maemo’s scratchbox development environment
  
• GPE development environment
  
• OLPC’s development environment

Default user interface components

• Gtk+ >= 2.8 (but take note of the GLib version requirement)
  
• GNOMEui
  
• GtkHTML

Language bindings

• Python, pygtk