Category:Development

This page contains links to pages of interest to developers.

Getting started

• Developer FAQ
• Contribution guidelines for Octave
  • C++ style guide
  • Octave style guide
• Contributing to the development of packages/modules
• Octave's file types

Project ideas and work in progess

• Easy projects
• GSoC Project Ideas
• Projects -- Many things that would be nice to have done. Not classified into things done or not done in Matlab. (Is that a project in itself?)
  • Classdef -- Define own data types using classdef.
  • Java interface
  • JIT -- Just in time compiler for Octave.
  • GUI terminal widget -- Ideas about a new improved terminal widget.
  • International Characters Support -- Using Octave in your own language.

Tools & techniques

• Mercurial -- Version control scheme.
• MXE -- Cross-compiling to Windows.
• gdb -- debugger. Useful to obtain stack traces.
  • Debugging Octave -- particularly .oct files using gdb.
• valgrind -- memory leak detector, profiler etc.
  • Finding Memory Leaks
• ccache -- cache compilation across builds.
• Editors -- A list of editors supporting Octave syntax highlighting.

Documentation

• Help text -- Document m-files
• Doxygen -- Document C++ files

Building

• Building - General information.
• Continuous Build
• Large array support

Testing

• Tests
• BIST for m-files
• BIST for C++ files

Packaging

• Building binary distributions.
  • Create a macOS app using MacPorts
  • Create a Windows Installer using MXE

Code sprints

• 2015 Code Sprint
• Code sprint Zurich

Release procedures

• Release Checklist
• 5.0.0 Release Checklist
  • Bug Fix List - 5.0 Release

Other

• Project Infrastructure
• Status of bugs (outdated)