The aim of this package is to make reading the INSTALL file unnecessary. So next time try running: $ bpkg build libxerces-c But if you don't want to use the package manager, then you can also build this package manually using the standard build2 build system. Note that by default libxerces-c is built without network support. To enable it, run the following command instead: $ bpkg build libxerces-c +{ config.libxerces_c.network=true }