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+## Basic requirements
+* A relatively POSIX-compliant *NIX system
+ * Cygwin or MinGW can be used on Windows
+* g++ 4.2
+* boost 1.53.0
+* Runtime libraries for lex and yacc might be needed for the compiler.
+
+## Requirements for building from source
+* GNU build tools:
+ * autoconf 2.65
+ * automake 1.9
+ * libtool 1.5.24
+* pkg-config autoconf macros (pkg.m4)
+* lex and yacc (developed primarily with flex and bison)
+* libssl-dev
+
+## Language requirements
+These are only required if you choose to build the libraries for the given language
+
+* C++
+ * Boost 1.53.0
+ * libevent (optional, to build the nonblocking server)
+ * zlib (optional)
+* Java
+ * Java 1.7
+ * Apache Ant
+* C#: Mono 1.2.4 (and pkg-config to detect it) or Visual Studio 2005+
+* Python 2.6 (including header files for extension modules)
+* PHP 5.0 (optionally including header files for extension modules)
+* Ruby 1.8
+ * bundler gem
+* Erlang R12 (R11 works but not recommended)
+* Perl 5
+ * Bit::Vector
+ * Class::Accessor