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General information about building the Octave source for different operating systems.
General information about building the Octave source for different operating systems.
* Linux
** [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]]
** [[Octave for Debian systems|Debian (and Debian-based)]]
** [[Octave for RedHat Systems|RedHat (and RedHat-based)]]
** [[Octave for Slackware|Slackware]]
* [[Building for Macintosh platform|macOS]]
* [[Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows|Windows]]
** [[Building on Cygwin platform]]
** [[MXE]] cross compiler


We try to keep build instructions up to date in the source tree. Please clone using [[Mercurial]] or download it to see the README.
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 [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html manual].
There are also instructions in the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html manual].
* [[Octave for Debian systems]].
* [[Octave for Arch Linux]].
* [[Building for Macintosh platform]]
* [[Building on Cygwin platform]]


==Dependencies==
==Dependencies==
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|-
|-
! Task
! Task
! Name
! Dependency
! Usage
! Description
! License / Copyright
! License / Copyright
! Version
! Version
! [[Debian]]
! [[Arch Linux]]
! Level
! Level
! Recent CVE ?
! Recent CVE ?
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| Compiling the source code
| Compiling the source code
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|build-essential}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Makefile processor
| Makefile processor
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|make}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
| none
| none
|-
|-
| AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities
| Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses
| Miscellaneous tasks
| Miscellaneous tasks
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|awk}}, {{codeline|sed}}, ...
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Parser generator
| Parser generator
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|bison}}
|
|
| style="background:green" |  
| style="background:green" |  
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| Lexical analyzer
| Lexical analyzer
| The Flex project
| The Flex project
|
| {{codeline|flex}}
|
|
| style="background:green" |  
| style="background:green" |  
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| Software configuration
| Software configuration
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|autoconf}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Makefile generator
| Makefile generator
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|automake}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Free Software Foundation
| Free Software Foundation
|
|
| {{codeline|libtool}}
| style="background:red" |  
| none
|-
| rowspan="9"| Documentation tools
| [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm 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
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftgl/ 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
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [http://geuz.org/gl2ps/ GL2PS]
| GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application.
| GNU LGPL v2.0
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [http://www.pstoedit.net/ pstoedit]
| Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats.
| GNU GPL v2.0
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ Texi2HTML]
| Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output.
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Texinfo]
| Documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information and printed output.
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| none
|-
| TeX Live generic
| Mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts.
| Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [https://www.tug.org/texlive/ TeX Live]
| Compiler for TeX doumentation.
| Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
|-
| [http://www.ctan.org/pkg/transfig transfig]
| Tans­lates fig­ures gen­er­ated by xfig to a large va­ri­ety of for­mats.
| BSD Style Li­cense
|
| style="background:green" |  
| none
| none
|-
|-
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| Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library
| Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine library
| Free - proper attribution request
| Free - proper attribution request
|
| {{codeline|libatlas-base-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Linear Algebra Package
| Linear Algebra Package
| Free - proper attribution request
| Free - proper attribution request
|
| {{codeline|liblapack-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
| Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
| Free
| Free
|
| {{codeline|libpcre3-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Command-line editing library
| Command-line editing library
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|libreadline-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems
| Solution of large-scale eigenvalue problems
| BSD like - various authors
| BSD like - various authors
|
| {{codeline|libarpack2-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Free Software -- main author
| Free Software -- main author
| > 7.32.00
| > 7.32.00
| {{codeline|curl}}
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
| [http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-4545 CVE-2013-4545]
| [http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-4545 CVE-2013-4545]
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| Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms
| Library for computing discrete Fourier transforms
| MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0
| MIT -- GNU GPL v2.0
|
| {{codeline|libfftw3-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Portable GUI toolkit
| Portable GUI toolkit
| GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception
| GNU GPL v2.0 with static linking exception
|
| {{codeline|libfltk1.3-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Library for configuring and customizing font access
| Library for configuring and customizing font access
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
|
| {{codeline|fontconfig}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Portable font engine
| Portable font engine
| compatible with GNU GPL v3.0
| compatible with GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|libfreetype6-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| GNU Linear Programming Kit
| GNU Linear Programming Kit
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|libglpk-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| Interactive graphics program
| Interactive graphics program
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
|
| {{codeline|gnuplot}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| various -- integrates many third-party libs
| various -- integrates many third-party libs
| > 1.3.18
| > 1.3.18
| {{codeline|libgraphicsmagick++1-dev}}
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
| [http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-4589 CVE-2013-4589]
| [http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-4589 CVE-2013-4589]
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| Library for manipulating portable data files
| Library for manipulating portable data files
| BSD - like
| BSD - like
|
| {{codeline|libhdf5-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| API for portable 2D and 3D graphics
| API for portable 2D and 3D graphics
| Free specs -- license is driver dependent
| Free specs -- license is driver dependent
|
| {{codeline|libgl-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:red" |  
| style="background:red" |  
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| Computational geometry library
| Computational geometry library
| Free software -- specific
| Free software -- specific
|
| {{codeline|libqhull-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| QR factorization updating library
| QR factorization updating library
| GNU GPL v3.0
| GNU GPL v3.0
|
| {{codeline|libqrupdate-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| Sparse matrix factorization library
| Sparse matrix factorization library
| Main author
| Main author
|
| {{codeline|libsuitesparse-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
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| Data compression library
| Data compression library
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
| Provided "as is" -- various authors
|
| {{codeline|zlib1g-dev}}
|
|
| style="background:yellow" |  
| style="background:yellow" |  
| none
| none
|}
|}


==Security concerns==
==Security concerns==
* CVE-2013-4545 (cURL): solved by version 7.34.00. Upgrade dependencies.
* 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.
* CVE-2013-4589 (graphicsmagick): the actual version (1.3.18, released March 9th, 2013), is affected. Awaiting a new release.
   
   
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