Compilation of Scilab
This page describe how to compile Scilab from source on your computer.
Scilab is pretty easy to build under various operating system and uses the standard tools: autotools under all Unixes (Linux, Unix & Mac OS X) and Microsoft Visual Studio Community. We are using Git to manage the source code and the dependencies are managed on Subversion as per platform binary libraries.
Linux x86_64 cheat sheet
git clone -b master --depth=1 https://github.com/scilab/scilab.git scilab_master cd scilab_master/scilab/ svn --force checkout https://github.com/scilab/scilab-prerequirements.git/trunk/linux_x64/ . ./configure make
Linux x86 cheat sheet
git clone -b master --depth=1 https://github.com/scilab/scilab.git scilab_master cd scilab_master/scilab/ svn --force checkout https://github.com/scilab/scilab-prerequirements.git/trunk/linux/ . ./configure make
Windows x64 cheat sheet
git clone -b master --depth=1 https://github.com/scilab/scilab.git scilab_master cd scilab_master/scilab/ svn --force checkout https://github.com/scilab/scilab-prerequirements.git/trunk/Windows_x64/ . devenv.exe scilab_master\scilab\Scilab_f2c.sln cd scilab_master/scilab/
Windows x86 cheat sheet
git clone -b master --depth=1 https://github.com/scilab/scilab.git scilab_master cd scilab_master/scilab/ svn --force checkout https://github.com/scilab/scilab-prerequirements.git/trunk/Windows/ . devenv.exe scilab_master\scilab\Scilab_f2c.sln