Autogen is missing dependencies

tanuki · December 4, 2025, 7:24pm

I’m not entirely sure this is the right place to post this question, so if it isn’t please kindly let me know.

I was following the instructions of the Development/BuildingOnWindows article. Afterwards I noticed that the file autogen.input has not been created so I tried running autogen.sh manually. This resolved in the following error message:

Various low-level dependencies are missing, please install them:
         autoconf: autoconf is required
         pkg-config: pkg-config is required to be installed
         aclocal: aclocal is required

My first question would be where I could download these programms. I had a look online and found the following links. I’m not entirely sure those are the “official” sources as some of these packages are from 2004. Can someone tell me if I found the “right one”?

Links:

hXXps://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/dependencies/
hXXps://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/autoconf.htm
hXXps://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm

I was also wondering if anyone ever had the same problem or if that was a mistake on my part. If it was the former (which I consider unlikely) the instructions would need to be updated.

Here is some additional information that might help:

OS Edition: Windows 11 Home
OS Version: 25H2

mikekaganski · December 4, 2025, 7:44pm

No it’s not the best place here - use https://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers, including “talk to developers” links there.
Those dependencies are needed in your WSL (Linux) - yes, it is needed when building for Windows on Windows. You are not expected to download them from sites; the norm is to use the respective Linux distro’s package management system (use advise 1 to get a better help, including an option to get a boarding call with @ilmari).