# Building moonshot
First, make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

1. autoconf
1. automake
1. libtool
1. doxygen
1. [OpenSSL](http://www.openssl.org/)
1. [Curl](http://curl.haxx.se)
1. Xerces-C XML parser
1. [Apache Santuario](http://santuario.apache.org/)
1. [MIT Kerberos](http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/) at least version 1.9
1. log4cpp or log4shib
1. [libevent](http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) at least
version 2.0
1. Sqlite version 3
1. Libtalloc
1. A variety of Gnome and GTK components; the UI package in the source tree will complain if components are missing


On a Debian or Ubuntu system you can get a lot of these dependencies
with:

    aptitude install libxml-security-c-dev libxerces-c-dev \
      libcurl4-openssl-dev liblog4cpp5-dev autotools-dev doxygen libtool \
      libconfuse-dev autoconf automake python \
      libsqlite3-dev libtalloc-dev fakeroot libkrb5-dev libevent-dev


Ensure that libgss-dev is not installed as the headers are conflicting 
with the headers from libkrb5-dev.

Follow the
[Repository](http://www.project-moonshot.org/developers/repository)
instructions for checking out a copy of Moonshot At this writing, the
following should be sufficient: 

    git clone --recursive http://www.project-moonshot.org/git/moonshot.git

Create some directory that you have permission to write to. We'll
assume this is /usr/local/moonshot. Run

    ./builder --prefix=/usr/local/moonshot

The builder script  takes other options to permit modifying what is
passed to configure. The script will build and install the Moonshot
projects. Now [[Prepare]] to use the software.

[[Building client software for Mac OS]]