The srcML format is a XML representation for source code, where the markup tags identify elements of the abstract syntax for the language. The srcml program is a command line application for the conversion of source code to srcML, an interface for the exploration, analysis, and manipulation of source code in this form, and the conversion of srcML back to source code. The current parsing technologies support C/C++, C#, and Java. srcML requires some statically compiled Boost libraries which are not available in Slackware's default installation. Thus, the required libraries are compiled temporarily according to srcML's documentation but will not be installed into your system. Also, srcML's Python binding will not be installed. To build this its dependency antlr2 must be built against jdk (or openjdk).