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:''This article provides general information about building GNU Octave from source | :''This article provides general information about '''building GNU Octave''' from source (on Unix-like systems).'' | ||
:'' | :*''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 == | == General steps == | ||
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# Install all [[#Dependencies|build dependencies]] (see below). | # Install all [[#Dependencies|build dependencies]] (see below). | ||
# Getting the Octave sources ... | # Getting the Octave sources ... | ||
::(A) ... from the development repository (requires also [https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ Mercurial]) | |||
<div style="margin-left:5em;"> | <div style="margin-left:5em;"> | ||
hg clone https://www.octave.org/hg/octave && \ | hg clone https://www.octave.org/hg/octave && \ | ||
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./bootstrap | ./bootstrap | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
:: | ::(B) ... from a release | ||
<div style="margin-left:5em;"> | <div style="margin-left:5em;"> | ||
wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/octave-{{Release}}.tar.gz && \ | wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/octave-{{Release}}.tar.gz && \ | ||
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* [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]] | * [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]] | ||
* [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems|Fedora / RedHat / CentOS]]}} | * [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems|Fedora / RedHat / CentOS]]}} | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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| Portable font engine | | Portable font engine | ||
| compatible with GNU GPL v3.0 | | compatible with GNU GPL v3.0 | ||
|- | |||
| [https://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/ GL2PS] | |||
| OpenGL to PostScript printing library | |||
| GNU GPL v2.0 | |||
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| [https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk GLPK] | | [https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk GLPK] | ||
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| Provided "as is" -- various authors | | Provided "as is" -- various authors | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [http://www.graphicsmagick.org GraphicsMagick++] | | Magick++, e.g. [http://www.graphicsmagick.org GraphicsMagick++] | ||
| Image processing library | | Image processing library | ||
| various -- integrates many third-party libs | | various -- integrates many third-party libs | ||
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| Library for manipulating portable data files | | Library for manipulating portable data files | ||
| BSD - like | | BSD - like | ||
|- | |||
| JDK, e.g. [https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5 OpenJDK] | |||
| Java programming language compiler and libraries | |||
| GNU GPL v2.0 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [https://www.opengl.org OpenGL] | | [https://www.opengl.org OpenGL] | ||
| 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 | ||
|- | |||
| [http://www.portaudio.com/ PortAudio] | |||
| Audio I/O library | |||
| Free software -- specific | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [http://www.qhull.org Qhull] | | [http://www.qhull.org Qhull] | ||
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| QR factorization updating library | | QR factorization updating library | ||
| GNU GPL v3.0 | | GNU GPL v3.0 | ||
|- | |||
| [https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/qscintilla QScintilla] | |||
| Source code highlighter and manipulator; a Qt port of Scintilla | |||
| GNU GPL v3.0 | |||
|- | |||
| [https://www.qt.io/ Qt] | |||
| Widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces | |||
| GNU LGPL v3.0 | |||
|- | |||
| [https://rapidjson.org/ RapidJSON] | |||
| A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API | |||
| MIT license | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html SuiteSparse] | | [http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html SuiteSparse] | ||
| Sparse matrix factorization library | | Sparse matrix factorization library | ||
| Main author | | Main author | ||
|- | |||
| [https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials/ida SUNDIALS IDA] | |||
| SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers - Initial value problems for Differential-Algebraic equation (DAE) systems | |||
| BSD 3-Clause | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [https://zlib.net zlib] | | [https://zlib.net zlib] |