On 64-bit systems you need the following packages as well: pdflatex (normally provided by texlive-latex-base).makeself (for creating the generic installer package, required for VBox version >= 4.0).Java JDK (required to generate the Java bindings).cURL (version 7.16.1 or higher, required for VBox version >= 3.0).Java SE 6 JDK (Java API bindings, both webservice and XPCOM).gsoap (webservice API, version 2.8.50 or higher).

libpam0g (PAM support for the guest additions, required for VBox version >= 3.2).libcap (CAP_NET_RAW for ICMP sockets in NAT).Qt 5.x.y (with x >= 6, including the OpenGL part required for VBox version >= 5.2).libXcursor (required to support color mouse pointers in the guest).libxslt1 (required for VBox version >= 1.6, XML file transformation).

libxml2 (required for VBox version >= 1.6, XML file handling).

xsltproc (libxslt, XML style sheet processor).

Yasm 1.3 or later (yasm, Yasm Modular Assembler Project).

GCC 3.3.3 or later (except for the GCC 4.0.x series).

Build in a chroot environment or on the target virtual machine to solve this. a build on Ubuntu 16.10 will cause problems on an Ubuntu 14.04 guest). The Additions built will generally not work on a system older than the one they were built on (e.g.

Output goes to the folder out/linux.*/*/bin/additions. And to do a 32-bit build on a 64-bit host, add the parameter KBUILD_TARGET_ARCH=x86. To create an Additions disk image installer, do a second kmk run with packing on the command line. To only build the Additions (this requires a lot less dependencies, though sadly configure does not know that) add the make file parameter VBOX_ONLY_ADDITIONS=1 to the kmk command line. These instructions will also build the Guest Additions - the Linux parts only, and for the bit count your host system is using. If you want to supply specific build instructions (especially package names) for other distributions, please contact the VirtualBox team. Things should not be much different for other distributions though. These include Debian, Ubuntu and Oracle Linux. While we try to not favor any distribution, we only build with certain distributions.

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