AUTHOR: Daniel Baumann DATE: 2004-09-19 LICENSE: GNU General Public License SYNOPSIS: How to install Scilab on LFS. PRIMARY URI: http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/linux-from-scratch/hints/scilab/ DESCRIPTION: How to install Scilab on your LFS-system. PREREQUISITES: A complete LFS-system with an X Window System, g77, Tcl, Tk and Xaw3d (instructions included in the hint). HINT: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scilab 3.0 ========== 1. Introduction to Scilab ========================= Scilab is a numerical computation system similiar to Matlab or Simulink. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions, and programs from various languages (such as C or Fortran) can be added interactively. It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, and linear systems), an interpreter, and a high-level programming language. Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by using overloading. A number of toolboxes are available with the system. 1.1. Package information ======================== * Download (HTTP): http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/download/stable/scilab-3.0.src.tar.gz * Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Scilab/distributions/scilab-3.0.src.tar.gz * Download size: 11 MB * MD5 Sum: d6fc5fe12519f99ccdd492c4ba96935a * Estimated Disk space required: 145 MB * Estimated build time: 2.3 SBU 1.2. Scilab depencies ===================== Required: * X Window System (see BLFS for instructions) * g77 (see BLFS for instructions) * Tcl (see BLFS for instructions) * Tk (see BLFS for instructions) * Xaw3d Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/X/Xaw3d-1.5E.tar.gz Install Xaw3d by running the following commands: __________________________________________________________________________ | | | cd xc/lib/Xaw3d | | mkdir X11; cd X11; ln -fs .. Xaw3d; cd .. | | sed -i -e 's/XCOMM EXTRA_INCLUDES = -I\./EXTRA_INCLUDES = -I\./' \ | | > Imakefile | | xmkmf; make depend; make; make install | |__________________________________________________________________________| 2. Installation of Scilab ========================= Install Scilab by running the following commands: __________________________________________________________________________ | | | ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnu && | | make all && | | make install | |__________________________________________________________________________| To test the result, issue: cd tests && make tests. 3. Configuring Scilab ===================== 3.1 Config files ================ ~/.scilab_settings 4. Contents =========== The Scilab package contains intersci, intersci-n, scilab. 5. Description ============== * scilab scilab is the Scilab program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGELOG: [2004-09-19] * Formal changes. [2004-07-17] * Initial revision.