Building
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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.
- Octave for Debian systems.
- Octave for Arch Linux.
- Building for Macintosh platform
- Building on Cygwin platform
Dependencies
| Critical | |
| Recommended | |
| Not critical |
| Task | Name | Usage | License | Version | Debian | Level | Recent CVE ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build tools | C++, C, and Fortran compilers | Compiling the source code | GNU GPL v3.0 | build-essential
|
none | ||
| GNU Make | Makefile processor | GNU GPL v3.0 | make
|
none | |||
| AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities | Miscellaneous tasks | GNU GPL v3.0 | awk, sed, ...
|
none | |||
| Bison | Parser generator | GNU GPL v3.0 | bison
|
none | |||
| Flex | Lexical analyzer | The Flex project | flex
|
none | |||
| Autoconf | Software configuration | GNU GPL v3.0 | autoconf
|
none | |||
| Automake | Makefile generator | GNU GPL v3.0 | automake
|
none | |||
| Libtool | Dependency of automake | Free Software Fundation | libtool
|
none | |||
| External tools | BLAS | Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library | Free - proper attribution request | libatlas-base-dev
|
none | ||
| LAPACK | Linear Algebra Package | Free - proper attribution request | liblapack-dev
|
none | |||
| PCRE | Perl Compatible Regular Expression library | Free | libpcre3-dev
|
none | |||
| GNU Readline | Command-line editing library | GNU GPL v3.0 | libreadline-dev
|
none | |||
| ARPACK | Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems | BSD like - various authors | libarpack2-dev
|
none | |||
| cURL | Library for transferring data with URL syntax | > 7.32.00 | curl
|
CVE-2013-4545 | |||
| FFTW3 | Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms | libfftw3-dev
|
none | ||||
| FLTK | Portable GUI toolkit | libfltk1.3-dev
|
none | ||||
| fontconfig | Library for configuring and customizing font access | fontconfig
|
none | ||||
| FreeType | Portable font engine | libfreetype6-dev
|
none | ||||
| GLPK | GNU Linear Programming Kit | libglpk-dev
|
none | ||||
| gnuplot | Interactive graphics program | gnuplot
|
none | ||||
| GraphicsMagick++ | Image processing library | > 1.3.18 | libgraphicsmagick++1-dev
|
CVE-2013-4589 | |||
| HDF5 | Library for manipulating portable data files | libhdf5-dev
|
none | ||||
| OpenGL | API for portable 2D and 3D graphics | libgl-dev
|
none | ||||
| Qhull | Computational geometry library | libqhull-dev
|
none | ||||
| QRUPDATE | QR factorization updating library | libqrupdate-dev
|
none | ||||
| SuiteSparse | Sparse matrix factorization library | libsuitesparse-dev
|
none | ||||
| zlib | Data compression library | zlib1g-dev
|
none |
Security concerns
- CVE-2013-4545 (cURL): solved by version 7.34.00. Upgrade dependencies.
- CVE-2013-4589 (graphicsmagick): the actual version (1.3.18, released March 9th, 2013), is affected. Awaiting a new release.