
You can find detailed instruction how to get libraries and applications
build and working in the openstreetmap wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Libosmscout

To enable support for parsing *.osm files you need libxml as an
external dependency.

To enable support for parsing *.osm.pbf files you need the google
protobuffer library, the protobuffer compiler and libz as a
external dependencies.
