= Overview = QGIS, like a number of major projects (eg. KDE 4.0), uses CMake (http://www.cmake.org) for building from source. Following a summary of the required dependencies for building: Required build tools: - CMake >= 2.6.0 - Flex - Bison - Required build deps: - Qt >= 4.4.0 - Proj >= 4.4.x - GEOS >= 3.0 - Sqlite3 >= 3.0.0 - GDAL/OGR >= 1.4.x - Qwt >= 5.0 - Optional dependencies: - for GRASS plugin - GRASS >= 6.0.0 (libraries compiled with exceptions support on Linux 32bit) - for georeferencer - GSL >= 1.8 - for postgis support and SPIT plugin - PostgreSQL >= 8.0.x - for gps plugin - expat >= 1.95 and gpsbabel - for mapserver export and PyQGIS - Python >= 2.3 (2.5+ preferred) - for python support - SIP >= 4.8, PyQt >= must match Qt version - for qgis mapserver - FastCGI -