Hi all,
It's been a couple of years since I started developing on VBox and every
time I have to build it on a new computer I start from the
Linux build instruction page. Unfortunately this page has (since then)
obsolete package names and versions, so I always have to go through
the configuration errors, and manage to replace one by one the
missing/incorrect packages.
I think it would be useful to update the instructions to reflect the
current situation,
so, in order to help this process, I want to share with you what I had
to fix in the package list this time.
This is what I had to fix to compile on an Ubuntu 16.04 x64 system.
- *libhal-dev*: this package is no longer available in the Ubuntu
repositories. It used to be replaced by some other package, but this is
not the case anymore.
The only viable solution (to the best of my knowledge) is to add a
private repository, named
*mjblenner/ppa-hal***(https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal
<https://launchpad.net/%7Emjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal>),
which cointains the last HAL packages.
- *linux-kernel-headers* -> replaced (automatically) by *linux-libc-dev*
- *python-central* -> a part from being unavailable, it seems it is
simply not needed anymore (since python is pre-installed).
- (64-bit systems) *ia32-libs* -> replaced by *lib32ncurses5*
- *mkisofs* -> replaced by *genisoimage*
- *SSL*: libcurl4-openssl-dev is not sufficient, since it does not
install the headers. These are installed by *libssl-dev*
- *VPX*: this is not even included in the list, but it is necessary to
install the *libvpx-dev* package
- *Qt4*: Starting from VBox 5, the correct version is Qt5, and it can be
installed through the *qt5-default* package
Another good thing to add would be to add instructions for the *watcom*
package, which has to be installed manually.
Currently, the only version I managed to make visible to vbox is the one
from openwatcom.org (http://www.openwatcom.org/download.php).
After installing the package (download the linux binary, make it
executable (chmod +x), run the installation choosing the destination
folder),
it is necessary to export the WATCOM variable in order to have it
correctly seen by vbox: ' export WATCOM=/watcom-///full-/path/'.
In my case, these step were enough, but it may vary from system to system.
I hope this will help people trying to build vbox for the first time,
and incentivize the administrators to update the online instructions.
Best wishes,
Federico
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