scilab.txt

   1 AUTHOR: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>
   2
   3 DATE: 2004-09-19
   4
   5 LICENSE: GNU General Public License
   6
   7 SYNOPSIS: How to install Scilab on LFS.
   8
   9 PRIMARY URI: http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/linux-from-scratch/hints/scilab/
  10
  11 DESCRIPTION:
  12 How to install Scilab on your LFS-system.
  13
  14 PREREQUISITES:
  15 A complete LFS-system with an X Window System, g77, Tcl, Tk and Xaw3d (instructions included in the hint).
  16
  17 HINT:
  18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  19
  20 Scilab 3.0
  21 ==========
  22
  23
  24 1. Introduction to Scilab
  25 =========================
  26
  27 Scilab is a numerical computation system similiar to Matlab or Simulink. Scilab
  28 includes hundreds of mathematical functions, and programs from various languages
  29 (such as C or Fortran) can be added interactively. It has sophisticated data
  30 structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, and linear
  31 systems), an interpreter, and a high-level programming language. Scilab has been
  32 designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and
  33 operations on these data types by using overloading. A number of toolboxes are
  34 available with the system.
  35
  36
  37 1.1. Package information
  38 ========================
  39
  40   * Download (HTTP): http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/download/stable/scilab-3.0.src.tar.gz
  41
  42   * Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Scilab/distributions/scilab-3.0.src.tar.gz
  43
  44   * Download size: 11 MB
  45
  46   * MD5 Sum: d6fc5fe12519f99ccdd492c4ba96935a
  47
  48   * Estimated Disk space required: 145 MB
  49
  50   * Estimated build time: 2.3 SBU
  51
  52
  53 1.2. Scilab depencies
  54 =====================
  55
  56 Required:
  57
  58   * X Window System (see BLFS for instructions)
  59
  60   * g77 (see BLFS for instructions)
  61
  62   * Tcl (see BLFS for instructions)
  63
  64   * Tk (see BLFS for instructions)
  65
  66   * Xaw3d
  67
  68     Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/X/Xaw3d-1.5E.tar.gz
  69
  70     Install Xaw3d by running the following commands:
  71
  72    __________________________________________________________________________
  73   |                                                                          |
  74   |  cd xc/lib/Xaw3d                                                         |
  75   |  mkdir X11; cd X11; ln -fs .. Xaw3d; cd ..                               |
  76   |  sed -i -e 's/XCOMM EXTRA_INCLUDES = -I\./EXTRA_INCLUDES = -I\./' \      |
  77   |     > Imakefile                                                          |
  78   |  xmkmf; make depend; make; make install                                  |
  79   |__________________________________________________________________________|
  80
  81
  82 2. Installation of Scilab
  83 =========================
  84
  85 Install Scilab by running the following commands:
  86
  87    __________________________________________________________________________
  88   |                                                                          |
  89   |  ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnu &&                                 |
  90   |  make all &&                                                             |
  91   |  make install                                                            |
  92   |__________________________________________________________________________|
  93
  94 To test the result, issue: cd tests && make tests.
  95
  96
  97 3. Configuring Scilab
  98 =====================
  99
 100
 101 3.1 Config files
 102 ================
 103
 104 ~/.scilab_settings
 105
 106
 107 4. Contents
 108 ===========
 109
 110 The Scilab package contains intersci, intersci-n, scilab.
 111
 112
 113 5. Description
 114 ==============
 115
 116   * scilab
 117
 118     scilab is the Scilab program.
 119
 120 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 121
 122 CHANGELOG:
 123 [2004-09-19]
 124   * Formal changes.
 125 [2004-07-17]
 126   * Initial revision.