Dependencies of Scilab 5.X

Mandatory (or almost)

Building

By default, Scilab is compiled by using the compiler available on the system. The operational team is mainly testing Scilab with GNU compiler but Scilab can be compiled with Sun (cc or F77) or Intel (icc & ifc) compilers.

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat
gcc	>= 4.0	C Compiler	http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html	gcc	gcc	gcc	gcc
g++	>= 4.0	C++ Compiler	http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html	g++	gcc-c++	gcc-c++	gcc-c++
gfortran	>= 4.2.X or >= 4.3.3	Fortran Compiler	http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ or http://www.gnu.org/software/fortran/fortran.html	gfortran	gcc-gfortran	gcc-fortran	gcc-gfortran

Java is also needed (see the GUI/Console chapter).

The version 4.2 (at least) of gfortran is needed because of this bug. Versions 4.3.{0,1,2} contain that bug.

From version 2.9, clang can be also used to compile Scilab

Core

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat	Fink
XML library	>= 2	XML parsing	http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html	libxml2-dev libxml2	libxml2-devel libxml2	libxml2-devel	libxml2-devel	libxml2-shlibs
PCRE library	>= 7.6	Regular Expression	ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/	libpcre3 libpcre3-dev	pcre-devel	pcre-devel	pcre-devel	pcre-shlibs pcre
Readline library	??	Basic console	??	libreadline-dev	readline-devel	ncurses-devel	ncurses-devel	ncurses-shlibs
HDF5	>= 1.8.X 1.8.4-patch1 for 5.3.X Mandatory since 5.4.0	Hierarchical Data Format 5 (From Scilab 5.2)	http://www.hdfgroup.com/HDF5/	libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 for 5.3.X	not available - compile from sources		hdf5-devel	hdf5
CURL	>= 7 from Scilab 5.5.0	Remote file access	http://curl.haxx.se/	libcurl3-openssl-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev

Version >= 7.6 of PCRE are recommended because previous versions accepted bad syntax like (?(1)a|b) and our tests are processing this case.

Numerical libraries

BLAS

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is an application programming interface (API). There are many implementations of this API. The operational team supports the generic one which has the same name (BLAS or refblas). The other supported BLAS implementation is Atlas, MKL or Openblas.

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse	Fedora/Redhat
refblas - netlib	>= 1.2	Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines	http://www.netlib.org/blas/	libblas3gf libblas-dev	blas		blas-devel
OR atlas	>= 3.8	Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software	http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/	libatlas3gf-base libatlas-dev	atlas		atlas atlas-devel (see /usr/share/doc/atlas-*/README.Fedora)

Please notice that Atlas 3.8.0 has a bug causing wrong answer for row-major GEMM C=A*A' or A'A (See bug 3624, bug 3640)

Atlas 3.8.2 has a bug causing a crash (See bug 3767, bug 3827)

Atlas 3.9.4 fixes all these problems (used on Windows).

Other implementations will be searched on the system (MKL lib, PhiPACK, CXML, Sun Performance library, SCSL, SGIMATH, IBM ESSL ...) but the operational team has not (and probably won't) tested them in depth.

Lapack

Like with Blas, the Lapack library will be searched on the system. If it is not available, the embedded lapack sources will be used.

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse	Fedora/Redhat
lapack	>= 3.2.2	Library of Linear Algebra Routines	http://www.netlib.org/lapack/	liblapack3gf liblapack-dev	lapack		lapack-devel

Lapack has various bugs in version prior to 3.2.2 (examples: 7754, 7485, 6477, etc).

arpack

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse	Fedora/Redhat
arpack/arpack-ng	>= 3.0.0	Fortran77 subroutines to solve large scale eigenvalue problems	http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/	libarpack2 libarpack2-dev	libarpack		arpack arpack-devel

Please note that Scilab is using (and by the way maintaining) the fork of arpack called arpack-ng.

GUI/Console

Using the options :

--without-javasci
--without-gui

those packages are not mandatory and Scilab is usable using the parameter -nwni (light Scilab)

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat
Ant	>= 1.7.0	Java Compilation	http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi	ant	ant	ant	ant
Java	>= 1.6.0	Java	http://java.oracle.com	openjdk-6-jdk	java-1.6.0-openjdk	java-1_6_0-sun-devel java-1_6_0-sun	java-1.6.0-openjdk
Flexdock	>= 0.5.1 >= 1.1.1 (from Scilab 5.3.0) >= 1.1.1 (from Scilab 5.4.0)	Java docking system	https://flexdock.dev.java.net/	libflexdock-java	flexdock		flexdock
JOGL	>= 1.1.1-rc8 >= 2.0rc4 (from Scilab 5.4.0)	Java Open GL	https://jogl.dev.java.net/	libjogl-java	jogl		jogl
Scirenderer	>= 0.4.4	Java 2D and 3D scientific rendering	http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/scirenderer/	libscirenderer-java
Jrosetta	>= 1.0.1 >= 1.0.4 (from Scilab 5.4.0)	Java Console	http://dev.artenum.com/projects/JRosetta	libjrosetta-java	jrosetta		jrosetta
commons-logging	>= 1.0	Logging (dependency of Xcos)	http://commons.apache.org/logging/	libcommons-logging-java	jakarta-commons-logging		apache-commons-logging
Jhall	>= 2.0	Java Help Extension	http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/ https://javahelp.dev.java.net/	javahelp2	javahelp2		javahelp2
JLaTeXMath	>= 0.6 >= 0.9.3 (from Scilab 5.3.0) >= 0.9.4 (from Scilab 5.3.1) >= 0.9.7 (from Scilab 5.4.0)	Java LaTeX processing (From Scilab 5.2)	http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/jlatexmath/	libjlatexmath-java			jlatexmath jlatexmath-fop
jgraphx	>= 1.2.0.7 for Scilab 5.2.1 1.0.2.X for Scilab 5.2.0 1.4.1.0 for Scilab 5.3.0 1.8.0.0 for Scilab 5.4.0	Graph drawing component (From Scilab 5.2.0).	http://www.jgraph.com/jgraphx.html	libjgraphx-java			jgraphx
fop	>= 0.95	XML to PDF Translator	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/	fop	fop		fop
jeuclid-core	>= 3.1.X	A complete MathML rendering solution	http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net	libjeuclid-core-java	jeuclid-core		jeuclid
batik	>= 1.7	xml.apache.org SVG Library	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/	libbatik-java	batik		batik
xmlgraphics-commons	>= 1.3.X >= 1.4 (from Scilab 5.4.1)	Reusable components used by Batik and FOP	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/	libxmlgraphics-commons-java	xmlgraphics-commons		xmlgraphics-commons

fop, batik, xmlgraphics-commons and jeuclid-core are also needed for the documentation build process.

TCL/TK features

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat
TCL	>= 8.4.0	TCL language	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/index.html	tcl8.4 tcl8.4-dev or tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev	tcl tcl-devel	tcl tcl-devel	tcl tcl-devel
TK	>= 8.4.0	TK features	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/index.html	tk8.4 tk8.4-dev or tk8.5 tk8.5-dev	tk tk-devel	tk tk-devel	tk tk-devel
xlibs	??	Xlib header (mandatory for tk)		xlibs-dev	X11-devel	xorg-x11-libX11-devel	libX11-devel

Modelica

Mandatory to build Scicos

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat	Fink
ocaml	>= 3.X.X	Objective Caml Compiler	http://caml.inria.fr/	ocaml-nox	ocaml		ocaml	ocaml

Documentation

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse	Fedora/Redhat
Java Help	>= 2.0.X	Help browser	http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/ https://javahelp.dev.java.net/	javahelp2	javahelp2		javahelp2

Documentation build

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Suse/Opensuse	Fedora/Redhat	Fink
saxon	??	The Saxon XSLT Processor	http://saxon.sourceforge.net/	libsaxon-java	saxon		saxon
docbook	??	Docbook	http://docbook.org/	docbook , docbook-xsl, docbook-utils, docbook-xml, docbook-dsssl	??		??

The version 1.71.X of docbook-xsl is not working (at least under Mac OS X) with Scilab's doc build process.

Optional

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Opensuse/Suse	Fedora/Redhat	Fink
Gettext	>= 0.17	Localization	http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/	gettext	gettext		gettext	gettext
PVM	>= 3.4.X	Parallel Virtual Machine	http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html	pvm pvm-dev	pvm pvm-devel	pvm	pvm
libxml2 utils	??	Utils provided for XML syntax check	http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html	libxml2utils or libxml2-utils	xml2-utils		N/A (provided by libxml2)
FFTW	??	Fast Fourier Transform	http://www.fftw.org/download.html	fftw3 fftw3-dev (have been renamed to libfftw3-3 and libfftw3-dev in testing/unstable)	libfftw3 fftw-devel		fftw-devel	fftw3
MATIO	1.3.3	Read/write Matlab binary files	http://sourceforge.net/projects/matio	libmatio libmatio-dev	libmatio0		matio-devel	libmatio-shlibs
umfpack	3.1.0	Sparse computations	http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/	libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-3.1.0 or libumfpack on old	libumfpack5 umfpack-devel		suitesparse-devel	suitesparse
JHDF	>= 2.5	Hierarchical Data Format 5 - Java API (For Scilab 5.2 and 5.3)	http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf-java-html/	libjhdf5-java	not available - compile from sources

Recompile Scilab from scratch

Name	Version	Provides	Official URL	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	Opensuse/Suse	Fedora/Redhat
Swig	>= 1.3.31	Wrapper Java => C/C++	http://www.swig.org/	swig	swig		swig
Giws	>= 1.2.1	Wrapper C/C++ => Java	http://www.scilab.org/giws/	N/A
autoconf	>=2.67	Generates the famous ./configure	http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/	autoconf	autoconf		autoconf
automake	>=1.11	Generates the Makefile.in	http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/	automake	automake		automake
libtool	>= 2.2.6	Manages library creation	http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/	libtool	libtool		libtool