Talk:Build from source: Difference between revisions

 

|'''C++, C, and Fortran compilers'''|| The Octave sources are primarily written in C++, but some portions are also written in C and Fortran. The Octave sources are intended to be portable. Recent versions of the GNU compiler collection (GCC) should work (http://gcc.gnu.org). If you use GCC, you should avoid mixing versions. For example, be sure that you are not using the obsolete g77 Fortran compiler with modern versions of gcc and g++.  

|'''GNU Make'''||Tool for building software (http://www.gnu.org/software/make). Octave's build system requires GNU Make. Other versions of Make will not work. Fortunately, GNU Make is highly portable and easy to install.  

|'''AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities'''||Basic Unix system utilities are required for building Octave. All will be available with any modern Unix system and also on Windows with either Cygwin or MinGW and MSYS.  

 

|'''Bison'''||Parser generator (http://www.gnu.org/software/bison). You will need Bison if you modify the oct-parse.yy source file or if you delete the files that are generated from it.  

|'''Flex'''||Lexer analyzer (http://www.gnu.org/software/flex). You will need Flex if you modify the lex.ll source file or if you delete the files that are generated from it.  

|'''Autoconf'''||Package for software configuration (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf). Autoconf is required if you modify Octave's configure.ac file or other files that it requires.  

|'''Automake'''||Package for Makefile generation (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake). Automake is required if you modify Octave's Makefile.am files or other files that they depend on.  

|'''Libtool'''||Package for building software libraries (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool). Libtool is required by Automake.

|'''Gnulib'''||<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/>

|'''gperf'''||<http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>

|'''Gzip'''||<http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>

|'''Mercurial'''||<http://mercurial.selenic.com/>

|'''Perl'''||<http://www.cpan.org/>

|'''Rsync'''||<http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>

|'''Tar'''||<http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>