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

1. [OpenSSL](http://www.openssl.org/)
1. [Curl](http://curl.haxx.se)
1. [XML Security](http://xml.apache.org/security/)
1. Xerces XML parser
1. [MIT Kerberos](http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/) at least version 1.9
1. log4cpp or log4shibb
1. [libevent](http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) at least
version 2.0

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

A sufficiently new version of libevent is in the libevent-dev package
in Debian experimental. The libkrb5-dev in Debian experimental is also
sufficiently new. [Sam Hartman](http://www.launchpad.net/~hartmans)
maintains sufficiently new krb5 for Ubuntu.

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 http://www.project-moonshot.org/git/moonshot.git
    cd moonshot
    git submodule init
    git submodule update



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.