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.
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. | GPL | none | |||
| FTGL | FTGL is a free cross-platform Open Source C++ library that uses Freetype2 to simplify rendering fonts in OpenGL applications. | MIT/X | none | ||||
| GL2PS | GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application. | LGPL | none | ||||
| pstoedit | Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. | GPL | none | ||||
| Texi2HTML | Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output. | GPLv3 | none | ||||
| Texinfo | Documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information and printed output. | GPL | none | ||||
| TeX Live generic | Mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts. | Free - proper attribution request | none | ||||
| TeX Live | Compiler for TeX doumentation. | Free - proper attribution request | 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.