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-:''This article provides general information about building GNU Octave from source.  If you just want to install Octave, see [[:Category:Installation]].''
+:''This article provides general information about '''building GNU Octave''' from source (on Unix-like systems).''
-:''Read [[Building on Microsoft Windows]], if that is your operating system.''
+:*''If you just want to '''install GNU Octave''', see [[:Category:Installation]].''
+:*''For '''MS Windows''', read [[Building on Microsoft Windows]] and [[Windows Installer]].''
+:*''For '''macOS''', read [[Octave for macOS]].''
 == General steps ==
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 * [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]]
 * [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems|Fedora / RedHat / CentOS]]}}
-On [[Windows Installer|MS Windows]] and [[Octave for macOS|macOS]] systems the generic Octave build process described on this page needs some more effort to fulfill the described build dependencies.  Please read [[Windows Installer]] and [[Octave for macOS]] for information how to build Octave for the respective systems.
 Dependencies marked with <span style="background:lightgreen">green background</span> are '''required''' for building Octave.  All other tools and libraries are recommended/optional, but very useful features (like the GUI, plotting, etc.) are likely to be disabled.