[vbox-dev] Building on Debian 9 and 10

[Martin Simmons]

I'm not vbox developer, but you could look at:

https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#Debian_10_.22Buster.22

__Martin


>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:26:03 -0400, Lonnie Cumberland said:
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> I want to build from the VirtualBox sources and have tested the setup on
> Debian 9 "Stretch" and Debian 10 "Buster" but have found that when I try to
> install the first set of required packages:
> 
> apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev \
>                 libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 \
>                 libhal-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
>                 python-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools libcap-dev \
>                 libxmu-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
>                 linux-kernel-headers libcurl4-openssl-dev libpam0g-dev \
>                 libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libqt4-opengl-dev makeself \
>                 libdevmapper-dev default-jdk python-central \
>                 texlive-latex-base \
>                 texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended \
>                 texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
> 
> Then at least the "python-central" and "libhal-dev" are not found.  There
> may also be more, so I wanted to ask the developers list about how anyone
> may have been able to compile on these Debian distros which I have started
> with a fresh installation on each for testing.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Lonnie
>