Building: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:22, 6 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.

There is a page for Debian/Ubuntu users here.

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

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 | rowspan="8"| Build tools
 | C++, C, and Fortran compilers
-| row 1, cell 3
+| Compiling the source code
 | build-essential
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/make GNU Make]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Makefile processor
-| row 1, cell 3
+| make
 |-
 | AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Miscellaneous tasks
-| row 1, cell 3
+| awk, sed, ...
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/bison Bison]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Parser generator
-| row 1, cell 3
+| bison
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/flex Flex]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Lexical analyzer
-| row 1, cell 3
+| flex
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf Autoconf]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Software configuration
-| row 1, cell 3
+| autoconf
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/automake Automake]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Makefile generator
-| row 1, cell 3
+| automake
 |-
 | [http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool Libtool]
-| row 2, cell 3
+| Dependency of automake
-| row 1, cell 3
+| libtool
 |}
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