3.3. Prerequisites for building Apache CloudStack

3.3. Prerequisites for building Apache CloudStack

There are a number of prerequisites needed to build CloudStack. This document assumes compilation on a Linux system that uses RPMs or DEBs for package management.

You will need, at a minimum, the following to compile CloudStack:

1. Maven (version 3)
2. Java (OpenJDK 1.6 or Java 7/OpenJDK 1.7)
3. Apache Web Services Common Utilities (ws-commons-util)
4. MySQL
5. MySQLdb (provides Python database API)
6. Tomcat 6 (not 6.0.35)
7. genisoimage
8. rpmbuild or dpkg-dev