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<H1> 6. Installation Issues and Problems </H1>
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Octave requires approximately 125MB of disk storage to unpack and
compile from source (significantly less if you don't compile with
debugging symbols or create shared libraries). Once installed, Octave
requires approximately 65MB of disk space (again, considerably less if
you don't build shared libraries or the binaries and libraries do not
include debugging symbols).
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<H2> 6.1 What else do I need? </H2>
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To compile Octave, you will need a recent version of GNU Make. You
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<em>You must have gnu make to compile octave</em>. Octave's Makefiles
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<H2> 6.2 Can I compile Octave with another C++ compiler? </H2>
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compilers, but the maintainers do not have sufficient time to devote to
this. If you are interested in working to make Octave portable to other
compilers, please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
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