# Compiling

Compiling edb is generally quite simple. edb currently depends on the following packages:

- Qt >= 4.5
- boost >= 1.35

Many distributions already have packages that satisify these.

Once you have Qt installed, it is as simple as

    $ qmake
    $ make

This will build the debugger along with all plugins I have written. On certain systems your qmake make be named slightly differently, I've noticed that the Fedora Core rpms name it qmake-qt4.

If you are planning on doing a make install, you likely want to specify the default plugin path, here's how you would do that.

    $ qmake -makefile DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/edb/"
    $ make

For installation information, see installing