[[!meta title="Setting up a ProteanOS Package Development Environment"]]

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This guide will explain how to set up a ProteanOS development system for
building software packages under **chroot**(8).

Note that to run ProteanOS under **chroot**(8) you need a system running Linux
3.4 or later.  These instructions have been tested on a Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
(wheezy) system with Linux 3.12 from wheezy-backports.

The ProteanOS Development Kit uses the **chroot**(8) and **mount**(8) commands,
which on Linux require superuser access.  This guide assumes the use of
**sudo**(8) for running commands with superuser privileges.  Adjust where
necessary if you don't use **sudo**(8).


Installing the ProteanOS Development Kit
========================================

First you'll need to get prokit, the [[ProteanOS_Development_Kit|dev/prokit]].
This toolkit can install a ProteanOS system, run a ProteanOS shell and other
commands, manage software packages on an installed ProteanOS system, and build
packages for ProteanOS (with build dependencies automatically installed and
removed).

Ensure you have a **make**(1) utility such as GNU Make installed.  No C or C++
compiler or other development tools are necessary to build prokit.

Download a released version of prokit from the files site by [HTTP][prokit-http]
or [FTP][prokit-ftp], e.g.:

    $ wget http://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/1.0.0/prokit-1.0.0.tar.gz
    $ tar -xzf prokit-1.0.0.tar.gz
    $ cd prokit-1.0.0/

Or clone it from the [Git repository][prokit-git]:

    $ git clone git://git.proteanos.com/prokit/prokit.git
    $ cd prokit/

Configure and build prokit:

    $ ./configure
    $ make

Or, if you cloned the Git repository, run:

    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ make

To build from the repository you'll need to have GNU Autoconf and Automake
installed.

It is recommended but not necessary that you install prokit to your system:

    $ sudo make install

Check that the installation was successful:

    $ prokit version

Or, if you didn't install prokit, run:

    $ src/prokit version

Refer to the [[**prokit**(1)_manual_page|dev/prokit/prokit.1]]:

    $ man prokit

Or, if you didn't install prokit, run:

    $ man man/prokit.1

[prokit-http]: http://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/
[prokit-ftp]: ftp://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/
[prokit-git]: http://git.proteanos.com/prokit/prokit.git/


Install a ProteanOS Development System
======================================

Now you can install a ProteanOS system into a directory in your file system.

Decide where to install ProteanOS and run:

    $ sudo prokit install dev/trunk $root

`$root` is the directory you chose.

Next install all of the toolchain packages commonly used to build ProteanOS
packages:

    $ sudo prokit opkg $root install build-essential

This may take a while, depending on your network connection.

Now you're ready to [[build_ProteanOS_packages|doc/pkg/basic-expat]]!