Tracking Dependencies

Compilers

• Version 1.0 requires a C++11 compiler.
• Version 1.1 requires a C++17 compiler.
• Version 1.4 requires a C++20 compiler.

See c++11, c++17, and C++20.

Libs

C++ bindings are not included, since their required versions match those of the C counterparts.

Library	v 0.92	v 1.0	v 1.1	v 1.2	v 1.3	v 1.4	master/gtk4
Boehm-GC	7.2	7.2	7.2
Cairo	1.14	1.14 (1.15.4 required for PDF links)	1.16*	1.16	1.16		1.18* **
double-conversion [1] (lib2geom dependency)	(not required)	any
FreeType			2.9* (Required for Variable fonts)	2.9	2.9
GDL	N/A (3.4)	3.4	Not Used	Not Used	Not Used	Not Used
Glib	2.28	2.48	2.56 or 2.62*	2.64	2.64		2.68**
GTK+	2.24 (3.8)	3.22	3.24*	3.24	3.24		4.12+
GNU Scientific Library	?	?
HarfBuzz	?	?	2.2*	2.6	2.6	2.6.5*	7.0*
libsigc++	2.0.12*	2.0.12*	2.0.12*				3.0**
libSoup	(not required)	(any)
libpotrace	(not required)	(any)
libxml	2.6.11*	2.6.11*
libxslt	1.0.15*	1.0.15*
lcms	1.13	2.2	2.2 (2.9*)	2.9*	2.9*
Pango	1.24	1.24 (1.41.1 required for variable fonts)	1.42*	1.44	1.44 (HarfBuzz shaping)		2.48**
Poppler	0.20.0	0.20.0	0.29 (0.71*)	0.29 (0.71*)	0.71*
gtk-mac-integration gtk-osx-application-gtk3	N/A	2.0.8 (macOS only)

* Tentative dependency

• Pango 1.42.2 requires Harfbuzz 1.4.2
• Pango 1.44.0 requires Glib 2.59.2 and Harfbuzz 2.0. 1.44 exposes hb_font directly.
• Pango 1.45.1 requires Glib 2.60
• Pango 1.48.4 has vertical upright marks fix.
• Harfbuzz 4.1 changes glyph positioning for upright vertical text when font does not have vertical metrics (from glyph touching to of cell to being centered in cell).
• Cairo 1.18 supports various color font formats include export to PDF.

** Gtkmm4 requires API changed Glibmm, Cairomm, and Pangomm. In particular, enums use child namespaces in newer libraries (Cairo::FORMAT_ARGB32 -> Cairo::Surface::Format::ARGB32).

⁺ Decision at 5 Nov 2023 developer's meeting. Gtk4 4.10.1 has an important scrolling bug fix.

Distros

Note: This table is not relevant to (non-fink) MacOS X, where we ship the desired version with Inkscape.

"Inkscape" column is default or distro version / oldest that builds - latest that builds. If no latest is given then that means trunk is expected to build on the given platform.

e.g. for a distro that ships with 0.48 but should support building of trunk you might get:

0.48 / 0.47-

General rules:

• Support latest Debian Stable (as of feature freeze) Debian packages
• Support latest Ubuntu LTS (as of feature freeze) Ubuntu packages
  • e.g. Considering Inkscape 1.2, the latest Ubuntu LTS at feature freeze time (around February 2022) would have been Ubuntu 20.04. The latest LTS at release time (around May 2022), though, will be Ubuntu 22.04. Therefore, according to the rule, we should support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the minimum version.

• Support last two Fedora releases (as of feature freeze) Fedora packages
• Don't break point releases.

Distro	Inkscape	gcc#	clang#	cairo	cairomm	freetype	glib	glibmm	gtk+	gtkmm	harfbuzz	pango	poppler	gdl	lcms2	libsigc++	libgc	libsoup
Windows MSYS2 (2021-04-14) (mingw-w64 packages from MSYS2 project)	1.0.2	10.2.0	11.0.0	1.17.4	1.12.2	2.10.4	2.68.1	2.66.0	3.24.27	3.24.3	2.8.0	1.48.4	20.12.1	3.34.0	2.12	2.10.6	8.0.4	2.72.0
Debian 11 (Bullseye, oldstable) EOL 2026	1.0.2	10.2.1	13.0.1	1.16	1.12.2	2.10.4	2.66.8	2.64.2	3.24.24	3.24.2	2.7.4	1.46.2	20.09.0	3.34.0	2.12	2.10.4	8.0.4	2.72.0
Debian 12 (Bookworm, stable) EOL 2028?	1.2.2	12.2.0	15.0.6	1.16.0	1.12.1	2.10.4	2.74.5	2.74.0	3.24.36 4.8.3	3.24.7 4.8.0	6.0.0	1.50.12	22.12.0	3.40.0	2.14.1	2.12.0 3.4.0	8.2.2	2.74.03 3.2.2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) EOL 2027-04	1.1.2	12.3.0	15.0.7	1.16.0	1.12.2	2.11.1	2.72.1	2.66.2	3.24.33 4.6.2	3.24.5 no libgtkmm-4.0	2.7.4	1.50.6	22.02.0	3.40.0	2.12-rc1	2.10.4	8.0.6	2.74.2 3.0.5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble) EOL 2029-04	1.2.2	13.2.0	18.0.0 (18.1.3)	1.18.0	1.14.5 1.18.0	2.13.2	2.80.0	2.66.7 2.78.1	3.24.41 4.14.2	3.24.9 4.10.0	8.3.0	1.52.1 2.52.0	24.02.0	3.40.0	2.14.2	2.12.1 3.6.0	8.2.6	2.74.3 3.4.4
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) EOL 2025-06	1.2.2	14.1.0	19.0 (19.0)	1.18.2	1.14.5 1.18.0	2.13.3	2.80.0	2.66.7 2.82.0	3.24.43 4.16.1	3.24.9 4.16.0	9.0.0	1.54.0 2.54.0	24.08.0	3.40.0	2.14.2	2.12.1 3.6.0	8.2.6	2.74.3 3.6.0

^#Debian and Ubuntu offer multiple gcc and clang versions, latest available version listed.

• Agreed to at Saarbrücken hackfest.

Getting and Installing Source packages

See Getting Started

Optional Dependencies

Inkscape will still compile without these, but some features may be missing if they are absent during compilation:

Library	Needed for	Default
aspell	Dictionaries for spell checking	On
libcdr	Open Corel Draw files	On
gettext/msgformat	Translation support	On
gtest/gmock	Automatted testing	Off
gspell	Spell checking	On
imagemagick	Bitmap editing extensions, bitmap import resolution	On
jpeg	jpeg import?	On
OpenMP	Multi-threaded filter rendering	On
scour	Save as Optimized SVG	(not needed during compiling, Python)
libvisio	Open Visio Files, use Visio stencils	On
libwpg	Open WordPerfect Graphics	On