PREREQUISITES.en.md

Prerequisites Installation — MO5 Development

This page describes how to install all the tools required to compile and develop programs for the MO5 from a Linux environment (or Codespaces / WSL / Ubuntu VPS).

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1️⃣ System dependencies installation

Update package lists:

sudo apt update

Install required build tools and dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential flex bison libboost-all-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev wget tar

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2️⃣ Installing lwtools

Download:

(last version can be found here: http://gvlsywt.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net/dev/cmoc.html#download)

wget http://www.lwtools.ca/releases/lwtools/lwtools-4.24.tar.gz

Extract:

tar -xzf lwtools-4.24.tar.gz
cd lwtools-4.24

Build and install:

make
sudo make install

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3️⃣ Installing CMOC

Download:

wget http://gvlsywt.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net/dev/cmoc-0.1.97.tar.gz

Extract:

tar -xzf cmoc-0.1.97.tar.gz
cd cmoc-0.1.97

Configure, build and install:

./configure
make
sudo make install

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4️⃣ Verifying CMOC installation

cmoc --version

If the version is displayed, the installation is successful ✅

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5️⃣ Verifying Python

python3 --version
pip3 --version

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6️⃣ Installing Python (if needed)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv

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7️⃣ Installing Python dependencies

Example:

pip install Pillow

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✅ Environment ready

At this point you have:

• lwtools installed
• cmoc installed
• python operational
• pip working

You are ready to compile MO5 projects and use utility scripts (image conversion, tooling, etc.).