Building

General information about building the Octave source for different operating systems.

We try to keep build instructions up to date in the source tree. Please clone using Mercurial or download it to see the README.

There are also instructions in the manual.

There is a page for Debian/Ubuntu users here.

Dependencies

Task	Name	Usage	Debian
Build tools	C++, C, and Fortran compilers	Compiling the source code	build-essential
	GNU Make	Makefile processor	make
	AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities	Miscellaneous tasks	awk, sed, ...
	Bison	Parser generator	bison
	Flex	Lexical analyzer	flex
	Autoconf	Software configuration	autoconf
	Automake	Makefile generator	automake
	Libtool	Dependency of automake	libtool
External tools	BLAS	Compiling the source code	build-essential
	LAPACK	Dependency of automake	libtool
	PCRE	Dependency of automake	libtool
	GNU Readline	Dependency of automake	libtool
	ARPACK	Dependency of automake	libtool
	cURL	Dependency of automake	libtool
	FFTW3	Dependency of automake	libtool
	FLTK	Dependency of automake	libtool
	fontconfig	Dependency of automake	libtool
	FreeType	Dependency of automake	libtool
	GLPK	Dependency of automake	libtool
	gnuplot	Dependency of automake	libtool
	GraphicsMagick++	Dependency of automake	libtool
	HDF5	Dependency of automake	libtool
	OpenGL	Dependency of automake	libtool
	Qhull	Dependency of automake	libtool
	QRUPDATE	Dependency of automake	libtool
	SuiteSparse	Dependency of automake	libtool
	zlib	Dependency of automake	libtool