TaskJuggler uses many additional tools. We have avoided to re-invent the wheel again wherever possible, at the same time we tried to keep the dependency list reasonably small. Nevertheless can it be challenging to the unexperienced user to build and install TaskJuggler from source code. Most users are probably better served by using binary packages from their distributor. Some distributions even have TaskJuggler included like the SuSE distribution.
This version of TaskJuggler was built and tested on SuSE Linux 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 on various hardware platforms.
To build and run TaskJuggler, you need:
qt3.2 — The Qt C++ class library version 3.3 or higher
GNU Compiler Collection — We are currently using GCC 3.2 to develop TaskJuggler. Since we try to write the code platform independent and ANSI standard compliant it should work with other compilers as well.
These requirements are enough to build and use the command line program that translates project descriptions into HTML or XML reports. If you want to built this documentation or use the tools to process the XML files you need to take care of additional dependencies. If any of the following dependencies are not matched, the configure script will issue a warning but will not fail.
DocBook4 — The DocBook system with additional stylesheets and utilities.
DocBook-Toys — The DocBook-Toys from Karl Eichwalder.
OpenJade — The OpenJade system.
JadeTeX — If you want to build the Postscript version of the documentation you need the JadeTeX macro package for teTeX.
XSLT Processor — like xsltproc from the libxslt package.
dvips — This is usually part of your TeX system like te_latex.
tjx2gantt is installed by default and generates Postscript Gantt charts from the XML files that TaskJuggler generates. tjx2gantt is written in Perl.
Perl 5.6 — The Perl interpreter and the following Perl modules.
XML::Parser — Available from CPAN
PostScript::Simple — Available from CPAN
Date::Calc — Available from CPAN
Class::MethodMaker — Available from CPAN
Data::Dumper — Available from CPAN. This module is only needed for debugging.
Poster — The Poster utility cuts big Postscript pictures into printable chunks. It's handy but optional as well.
Serveral people have contributed useful tools for TaskJuggler users. These tools can be found in the Contrib directory of the source code package. Please refer to the included README files for installation information.