# Prerequisites

Before you start building and running example applications, you should have the following installed on your workstation:

- Active Perl version 5.6.1

  You can download ActivePerl from the ActivePerl website. See ActivePerl documentation for installation instructions.

- Java Runtime version 1.5.0 or newer

  Java Runtime can be downloaded from Sun Developer Network Downloads. (JRE is included in J2SE.)

- S60 5th Edition SDK

- S60 example applications - delivered with the SDK installation package and installed to `<S60_SDK_installation_directory>\S60CppExamples` by default)

For further details on prerequisites, please refer to the S60 5th Edition SDK Installation Guide.