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! License / Copyright
! License / Copyright
|-style="background:lightgreen"
|-style="background:lightgreen"
| [http://www.netlib.org/blas BLAS]
| [https://www.netlib.org/blas BLAS]
| Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library
| Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library
| Free - proper attribution request
| Free - proper attribution request
|-style="background:lightgreen"
|-style="background:lightgreen"
| [http://www.netlib.org/lapack LAPACK]
| [https://netlib.org/lapack LAPACK]
| Linear Algebra Package
| Linear Algebra Package
| Free - proper attribution request
| Free - proper attribution request
|-style="background:lightgreen"
|-style="background:lightgreen"
| [http://www.pcre.org PCRE]
| [https://www.pcre.org PCRE]
| Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
| Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
| Free
| Free
|-style="background:lightgreen"
|-style="background:lightgreen"
| [http://www.gnu.org/s/readline GNU Readline]
| [https://www.gnu.org/software/readline GNU Readline]
| Command-line editing library
| Command-line editing library
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|-
|-
| [http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng ARPACK]
| [https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng ARPACK-NG]
| Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems
| Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems
| BSD like - various authors
| BSD like - various authors
|-
|-
| [http://curl.haxx.se cURL]
| [https://curl.haxx.se cURL]
| Library for transferring data with URL syntax
| Library for transferring data with URL syntax
| Free Software -- main author
| Free Software -- main author
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| MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0
| MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0
|-
|-
| [http://www.fltk.org FLTK]
| [https://www.fltk.org FLTK]
| Portable GUI toolkit
| Portable GUI toolkit
| GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception
| GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception
|-
|-
| [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig fontconfig]
| [https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig fontconfig]
| Library for configuring and customizing font access
| Library for configuring and customizing font access
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
|-
|-
| [http://www.freetype.org FreeType]
| [https://www.freetype.org FreeType]
| Portable font engine
| Portable font engine
| compatible with GNU GPL v3.0
| compatible with GNU GPL v3.0
|-
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk GLPK]
| [https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk GLPK]
| GNU Linear Programming Kit
| GNU Linear Programming Kit
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
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| various -- integrates many third-party libs
| various -- integrates many third-party libs
|-
|-
| [http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5 HDF5]
| [https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5 HDF5]
| Library for manipulating portable data files
| Library for manipulating portable data files
| BSD - like
| BSD - like
|-
|-
| [http://www.opengl.org OpenGL]
| [https://www.opengl.org OpenGL]
| API for portable 2D and 3D graphics
| API for portable 2D and 3D graphics
| Free specs -- license is driver dependent
| Free specs -- license is driver dependent
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| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|-
|-
| [http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse SuiteSparse]
| [http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html SuiteSparse]
| Sparse matrix factorization library
| Sparse matrix factorization library
| Main author
| Main author
|-
|-
| [http://zlib.net zlib]
| [https://zlib.net zlib]
| Data compression library
| Data compression library
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
| Provided "as is" -- various authors

Revision as of 08:45, 26 October 2019

This article provides general information about building GNU Octave from source.

General steps

  1. Install all build dependencies (see below).
  2. Getting the Octave sources ...
    • ... from the development repository
hg clone https://www.octave.org/hg/octave && \
cd octave                                  && \
./bootstrap
  • ... from a release
wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/octave-9.1.0.tar.gz && \
tar -xzf octave-9.1.0.tar.gz                               && \
cd octave-9.1.0
3. Configure, build, check, and install Octave
mkdir .build                            && \
cd    .build                            && \
./../configure --prefix=$HOME/my_octave && \ [1]
make -j2                                && \ [2]
make check                              && \
make install

Dependencies

Most of the dependencies given in this section can be very conveniently installed on many GNU/Linux systems. Please read the respective wiki page for your distribution on the Octave for GNU/Linux page.

On MS Windows and macOS systems the generic Octave build process described on this page needs some more effort to fulfill the described build dependencies. Please read Octave for Microsoft Windows and Octave for macOS for information how to build Octave for the respective systems.

Dependencies marked with green background are required for building Octave. All other tools and libraries are recommended/optional, but very useful features (like the GUI, plotting, etc.) are likely to be disabled.

Build tools

Dependency Description License / Copyright
Autoconf Software configuration GNU GPL v3.0
Automake Makefile generator GNU GPL v3.0
C++, C, and Fortran compilers Compiling the source code GNU GPL v3.0
GNU Make Makefile processor GNU GPL v3.0
Libtool Dependency of automake Free Software Foundation
Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses Miscellaneous tasks GNU GPL v3.0
Bison Parser generator GNU GPL v3.0
Flex Lexical analyzer The Flex project

Documentation tools

Dependency Description License / Copyright
epstool Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps. GNU GPL v2.0
FTGL Portable font engine to perform font rendering for Octave’s OpenGL-based graphics functions. GNU GPL v2.0
GL2PS GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application. GNU LGPL v2.0
Texi2HTML Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output. GNU GPL v3.0
Texinfo Documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information and printed output. GNU GPL v3.0
TeX Live TeX document production system including all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software. Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation

External tools and libraries

Dependency Description License / Copyright
BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library Free - proper attribution request
LAPACK Linear Algebra Package Free - proper attribution request
PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression library Free
GNU Readline Command-line editing library GNU GPL v3.0
ARPACK-NG Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems BSD like - various authors
cURL Library for transferring data with URL syntax Free Software -- main author
FFTW3 Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0
FLTK Portable GUI toolkit GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception
fontconfig Library for configuring and customizing font access Provided "as is" -- various authors
FreeType Portable font engine compatible with GNU GPL v3.0
GLPK GNU Linear Programming Kit GNU GPL v3.0
gnuplot Interactive graphics program Provided "as is" -- various authors
GraphicsMagick++ Image processing library various -- integrates many third-party libs
HDF5 Library for manipulating portable data files BSD - like
OpenGL API for portable 2D and 3D graphics Free specs -- license is driver dependent
Qhull Computational geometry library Free software -- specific
QRUPDATE QR factorization updating library GNU GPL v3.0
SuiteSparse Sparse matrix factorization library Main author
zlib Data compression library Provided "as is" -- various authors

See also

Footnotes

  1. --prefix determines the installation location.
  2. Depending on your system and processor count, use a larger number of parallel jobs, e.g. -j8.