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## Building POCO
The one dependency that is hard is `libpoco-dev`. LibreOffice Online makes extensive use of JSON processing using `libpoco`. However, there's a problem: the author of JSON decided it was a bright idea to troll(?) the Free Software community, and added a problematic line to his otherwise-MIT licensed code. "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." As a result, JSON doesn't fit the [Debian Free Software Guidelines and isn't present in any Debian packages](https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil). As a result, while Debian Stretch contains `libpoco` of a version we require, the extremely-critical-to-LOOL JSON parsing library is disabled in the code. So, we have to build the `libpoco` packages ourselves with JSON support, and then install them as dependencies.
The one dependency that is hard is `libpoco-dev`. LibreOffice Online makes extensive use of JSON processing using `libpoco`. However, there's a problem: the author of JSON decided it was a bright idea to troll(?) the Free Software community, and added a problematic line to his otherwise-MIT licensed code. "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." As a result, JSON doesn't fit the [Debian Free Software Guidelines and isn't present in any Debian packages](https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil), and while Debian Stretch contains `libpoco` of a version we require, the extremely-critical-to-LOOL JSON parsing library is disabled in the code. So, we have to build the `libpoco` packages ourselves with JSON support, and then install them as dependencies.
First, we start with a bare Stretch machine with the above dependencies installed and several GB of free space, and then create a directory to contain our `libpoco` build. We then download both the Debian source package and the Git repository fetching the same version branch.