--- layout: default title: Building --- ## Requirements ### Lua >= 5.1 Lsyncd depends on Lua 5.1 or greater; that is Lua 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3. For Lua versions beyond 5.1 you need an uptodate Lsnycd version. For most distributions you need to install the liblua??, the liblua??-dev and the lua?? package, with ?? being the respective Lua version. ### cmake >= 2.8 To configure Lsyncd to your system, cmake >= 2.8 is required ### rsync >= 3.0 During runtime Lsyncd needs rsync > 3.0 installed both on source and target systems. ## Compiling With these requirements fulfilled building Lsyncd should be a straight forward process. Unpack the downloaded tar.gz file and run: {% highlight shell %} cmake . make sudo make install {% endhighlight %}