Category:Development

This page contains links to pages of interest to developers. Some links appear in multiple sections.

Getting started

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

Project suggestions

• 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?)
• Roadmap -- future development of Octave

Tools

• Mercurial -- version control scheme.
• MXE -- cross-compiling to Windows or OSX.
• Doxygen -- "Literate programming" documentation generator.

• gdb -- debugger. Useful to obtain stack traces.
• valgrind -- memory leak detector, profiler etc.
• ccache -- cache compilation across builds.

Bugs and testing

• Status of bugs
• Bug Fix List - 4.0 Release
• Debugging Octave, particularly using .oct files and gdb
• Finding Memory Leaks
• Add BIST tests for octave functions written in C++
• BIST for m-files

Works in Progress

• Classdef
• Java interface
• JIT

Code sprints

• 2015 Code Sprint
• Code sprint Zurich

Release procedures

• Release Checklist

Other

• Hacking
• Project Infrastructure