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.

There is a page for Debian/Ubuntu users here.

Dependencies

Task Name Usage Debian
Build tools C++, C, and Fortran compilers Compiling the source code build-essential
GNU Make Makefile processor make
AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities Miscellaneous tasks awk, sed, ...
Bison Parser generator bison
Flex Lexical analyzer flex
Autoconf Software configuration autoconf
Automake Makefile generator automake
Libtool Dependency of automake libtool