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If you want to contribute changes to C++ files or are interested in testing the latest development or (unreleased) stable release, you can build Octave from source. | If you want to contribute changes to C++ files or are interested in testing the latest development or (unreleased) stable release, you can build Octave from source. | ||
There is currently no maintained way to build Octave on Windows directly. But it is still possible to build Octave on Windows machines using virtual machines or Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux. | |||
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Because of the basic lack of a graphical user interface (even if somewhat mitigated with the X server), using WSL(2) is not recommended for beginners. | Because of the basic lack of a graphical user interface (even if somewhat mitigated with the X server), using WSL(2) is not recommended for beginners. | ||
=Footnotes= | =Footnotes= |