Prerequisites

To compile and link the API on installation and use the example applications that are distributed with the framework, installation of the following packages is required:

Package	Description
gcc	C compiler
g++	C++ compiler
GNU make	make utility
libX11-dev	Library for using basic X11 display primitives in programs
libxext-dev	Library for using extended X11 display primitives in programs
libgtk-3-dev	Compile and link GigE Vision Device Status tool
libglade2-0 libglade2-dev	Library for loading and using “.glade” UI definition files

In addition, the following libraries are useful for enhancing the performance of the framework.

Package	Description
libpcap0.8	Library for user level packet capture
libcap2	Library / tools for assigning Linux “capabilities” to a program
ethtool	Utility to configuring tuning parameters of NIC drivers (usually installed by default)

For example, in Ubuntu. packages can be installed from the terminal using the following command:

sudo apt-get install <package name>

Note, if you are unable to locate a specific package, regular expression can be used to try to find a suitable alternative package. For example,

sudo apt-get install libpcap*

Note: The pre-requisite packages may have different names on different Linux distributions. See Appendix A: Common Package Management methods in Linux for more information on installing these packages and possible variations on their names.