* ccache http://ccache.samba.org/ to improve recompilation
* libgc-dev http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
* graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/ to enable graphes with the nitdoc tool
+ * libunwind http://nongnu.org/libunwind
+ * gperf http://gnu.org/software/gperf to enable mapping from C to Nit function names in a stack trace
Those are available in most linux distributions
- # sudo apt-get install build-essential ccache libgc-dev graphviz
+ # sudo apt-get install build-essential ccache libgc-dev graphviz libunwind gperf
Important files and directory: