Building: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:40, 7 December 2013

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.

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	Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library	`libatlas-base-dev`
	LAPACK	Linear Algebra Package	`liblapack-dev`
	PCRE	Perl Compatible Regular Expression library	`libpcre3-dev`
	GNU Readline	Command-line editing library	`libreadline-dev`
	ARPACK	Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems	`libarpack2-dev`
	cURL	Library for transferring data with URL syntax	`curl`
	FFTW3	Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms	`libfftw3-dev`
	FLTK	Portable GUI toolkit	`libfltk1.3-dev`
	fontconfig	Library for configuring and customizing font access	`fontconfig`
	FreeType	Portable font engine	`libfreetype6-dev`
	GLPK	GNU Linear Programming Kit	`libglpk-dev`
	gnuplot	Interactive graphics program	`gnuplot`
	GraphicsMagick++	Image processing library	`libgraphicsmagick++1-dev`
	HDF5	Library for manipulating portable data files	`libhdf5-dev`
	OpenGL	API for portable 2D and 3D graphics	-
	Qhull	Computational geometry library	`libqhull-dev`
	QRUPDATE	QR factorization updating library	`libqrupdate-dev`
	SuiteSparse	Sparse matrix factorization library	`libsuitesparse-dev`
	zlib	Data compression library	`zlib1g-dev`

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