(This file was created from

https://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2013-03-31)

# Installing from source

## Dependencies

There are a couple of development packages which Prosody needs installed

before you can build it. These are:

-   The [Lua](http://lua.org/) library, version 5.4 recommended

-   [OpenSSL](http://openssl.org/)

-   String processing library, one of

    -   [ICU](https://icu.unicode.org/) (recommended)

    -   [GNU libidn](http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/)

These can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu by running

`apt build-dep prosody` or by installing the packages

`liblua5.4-dev`, `libicu-dev` and `libssl-dev`.

On Mandriva try:

	urpmi lua liblua-devel libidn-devel libopenssl-devel

On Mac OS X, if you have MacPorts installed, you can try:

	sudo port install lua lua-luasocket lua-luasec lua-luaexpat

On other systems... good luck, but please let us know of the best way of

getting the dependencies for your system and we can add it here.

## configure

The first step of building is to run the configure script. This creates

a file called 'config.unix' which is used by the next step to control

aspects of the build process.

	./configure

All options to configure can be seen by running

	./configure --help

## make

Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run:

   make

Simple? :-)

If you do happen to have problems at this stage, it is most likely due

to the build process not finding the dependencies. Ensure you have them

installed, and in the standard library paths for your system.

For more help, just ask ;-)

==== install ====

At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with:

   ./prosody

There is no problem with this, it is actually the easiest way to do

development, as it doesn't spread parts around your system, and you

can keep multiple versions around in their own directories without

conflict.

Should you wish to install it system-wide however, simply run:

   sudo make install

...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you can

pass to the initial ./configure using the 'prefix' option, or edit

config.unix directly. If the new path doesn't require root permission to

write to, you also won't need (or want) to use 'sudo' in front of the

'make install'.

Have fun, and see you on Jabber!