Add prerequisites for building with GNU autotools

README.md

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ Solaris OpenCSW [![Build Status Solaris amd64](https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/bui
 [![Build Status Solaris SparcV9](https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/png?builder=libpsl-solaris10-sparcv9)](https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/builders/libpsl-solaris10-sparcv9)
 
 
-libpsl - C library to handle the Public Suffix List
-===================================================
+# libpsl - C library to handle the Public Suffix List
 
 A *Public Suffix List* is a collection of Top Level Domains (TLDs) suffixes.
 TLDs include *Global Top Level Domains* (gTLDs) like `.com` and `.net`;
@@ -44,14 +43,12 @@ Download the Public Suffix List [here](https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/blob
 The original DAFSA code is from the [Chromium Project](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/).
 
 
-API Documentation
------------------
+## API Documentation
 
 You find the current API documentation [here](https://rockdaboot.github.io/libpsl).
 
 
-Quick API example
------------------
+## Quick API example
 
 	#include <stdio.h>
 	#include <libpsl.h>
@@ -73,8 +70,7 @@ Quick API example
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-Command Line Tool
------------------
+## Command Line Tool
 
 Libpsl comes with a tool 'psl' that gives you access to most of the
 library API via command line.
@@ -83,8 +79,7 @@ library API via command line.
 
 prints the usage.
 
-Convert PSL into DAFSA
-----------------------
+## Convert PSL into DAFSA
 
 The [DAFSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_acyclic_finite_state_automaton) format is a compressed
 representation of strings. Here we use it to reduce the whole PSL to about 32k in size.
@@ -97,17 +92,15 @@ Test the result (example)
 
 	$ tools/psl --load-psl-file psl.dafsa aeroclub.aero
 
-License
--------
+## License
 
 Libpsl is made available under the terms of the MIT license.<br>
 See the LICENSE file that accompanies this distribution for the full text of the license.
 
 src/psl-make-dafsa and src/lookup_string_in_fixed_set.c are licensed under the term written in
 src/LICENSE.chromium.
 
-Building from tarball
----------------------
+## Building from tarball
 
 Choose a release from https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl/tags an download the tarball
 named `libpsl-{version}.tar.*`. Unpack with `tar xf <filename>`, cd into the libsl* directory.
@@ -124,24 +117,29 @@ Install with
 sudo make install
 ```
 
-Building from git
------------------
-
-You should have python2.7+ installed.
+## Building from git
 
 Download project with
 
 		git clone --recursive https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl
 		cd libpsl
 
-Build with GNU autotools
+### Building with GNU autotools
+
+Prerequisites:
+  - python2.7+ (for converting the PSL list)
+  - basic C development tools (compiler, linker)
+  - git, make, autoconf, autoconf-archive, autopoint, automake, autotools,
+  - libtool, gettext, m4, pkg-config
+  - for building docs: gtk-doc-tools (gtkdocize)
+  - for building tarballs: gzip, lzip
 
 		./autogen.sh
 		./configure
 		make
 		make check
 
-Build with `meson`
+### Building with `meson`
 
 		meson builddir
 		ninja -C builddir
@@ -151,8 +149,7 @@ There is also an unofficial MSVC nmake build configuration in `msvc/`.   Please
 see README.MSVC.md on building libpsl with Visual Studio via NMake or Meson.
 
 
-Mailing List
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+## Mailing List
 
 [Mailing List Archive](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/libpsl-bugs)