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.

• Building for Linux systems
• Octave for Debian systems
• Octave for Arch Linux
• Building for Macintosh platform
• Building on Cygwin platform
• MXE build on Linux system

Dependencies

Critical
Recommended
Not critical

Task	Dependency	Description	Feature	License / Copyright	Version	Level	Recent CVE ?
Build tools	C++, C, and Fortran compilers	Compiling the source code		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	GNU Make	Makefile processor		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses	Miscellaneous tasks		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Bison	Parser generator		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Flex	Lexical analyzer		The Flex project			none
	Autoconf	Software configuration		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Automake	Makefile generator		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Libtool	Dependency of automake		Free Software Foundation			none
Documentation tools	epstool	Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps.		GNU GPL v2.0			none
	FTGL	FTGL is a free cross-platform Open Source C++ library that uses Freetype2 to simplify rendering fonts in OpenGL applications.		Provided "as is" -- various authors			none
	GL2PS	GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application.		GNU LGPL v2.0			none
	pstoedit	Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats.		GNU GPL v2.0			none
	Texi2HTML	Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output.		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	Texinfo	Documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information and printed output.		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	TeX Live generic	Mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts.		Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation			none
	TeX Live	Compiler for TeX doumentation.		Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation			none
	transfig	Tans­lates fig­ures gen­er­ated by xfig to a large va­ri­ety of for­mats.		BSD Style Li­cense			none
External tools	BLAS	Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library		Free - proper attribution request			none
	LAPACK	Linear Algebra Package		Free - proper attribution request			none
	PCRE	Perl Compatible Regular Expression library		Free			none
	GNU Readline	Command-line editing library		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	ARPACK	Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems		BSD like - various authors			none
	cURL	Library for transferring data with URL syntax		Free Software -- main author	> 7.32.00		CVE-2013-4545
	FFTW3	Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms		MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0			none
	FLTK	Portable GUI toolkit		GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception			none
	fontconfig	Library for configuring and customizing font access		Provided "as is" -- various authors			none
	FreeType	Portable font engine		compatible with GNU GPL v3.0			none
	GLPK	GNU Linear Programming Kit		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	gnuplot	Interactive graphics program		Provided "as is" -- various authors			none
	GraphicsMagick++	Image processing library		various -- integrates many third-party libs	> 1.3.18		CVE-2013-4589
	HDF5	Library for manipulating portable data files		BSD - like			none
	OpenGL	API for portable 2D and 3D graphics		Free specs -- license is driver dependent			none
	Qhull	Computational geometry library		Free software -- specific			none
	QRUPDATE	QR factorization updating library		GNU GPL v3.0			none
	SuiteSparse	Sparse matrix factorization library		Main author			none
	zlib	Data compression library		Provided "as is" -- various authors			none

Security concerns

• CVE-2013-4545 (cURL): not sensitive if not compiled against OpenSSH. Solved by version 7.34.00. Upgrade dependencies if required.
• CVE-2013-4589 (graphicsmagick): the actual version (1.3.18, released March 9th, 2013), is affected. Awaiting a new release.