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| 8 | <sect1 id="other-tools" xreflabel="Other Programming Tools">
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <title>Other Programming Tools</title>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <indexterm zone="other-tools">
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| 19 | <primary sortas="a-Other-Programming-Tools">Other Programming Tools</primary>
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| 20 | </indexterm>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2 role="introduction">
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| 23 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>This section is provided to show you some additional programming
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| 26 | tools for which instructions have not yet been created in the book or for
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| 27 | those that are not appropriate for the book. Note that these packages may
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| 28 | not have been tested by the BLFS team, but their mention here is meant to
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| 29 | be a convenient source of additional information.</para>
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| 31 | </sect2>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect2>
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| 34 | <title>Programming Frameworks, Languages and Compilers</title>
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| 40 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 41 | <title></title>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para><application></application> This is the description.</para>
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| 60 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 61 | <title>Euphoria</title>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <para><application>Euphoria</application> is a simple, flexible, and
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| 64 | easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily
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| 65 | develop programs for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD. Euphoria was first
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| 66 | released in 1993. Since then Rapid Deployment Software has been steadily
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| 67 | improving it with the help of a growing number of enthusiastic users.
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| 68 | Although <application>Euphoria</application> provides subscript checking,
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| 69 | uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it is
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| 70 | extremely fast. People have used it to develop high-speed DOS games,
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| 71 | Windows GUI programs, and Linux X Windows programs. It is also very
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| 72 | useful for CGI (Web-based) programming.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 75 | <listitem>
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| 76 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 77 | url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/"/></para>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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| 80 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 81 | url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm"/></para>
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| 82 | </listitem>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | </sect3>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 88 | <title>Mono</title>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <para><application>Mono</application> provides the necessary software to
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| 91 | develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris,
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| 92 | Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the
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| 93 | <application>Mono</application> open source project has an active and
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| 94 | enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the
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| 95 | leading choice for development of Linux applications.</para>
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| 96 |
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| 98 | <listitem>
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| 99 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 100 | url="http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page"/></para>
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| 101 | </listitem>
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| 102 | <listitem>
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| 103 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 104 | url="http://go-mono.com/sources/"/></para>
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| 105 | </listitem>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | </sect3>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 111 | <title>Ordered Graph Data Language (OGDL)</title>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <para><application>OGDL</application> is a structured textual format that
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| 114 | represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings
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| 115 | and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.</para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 118 | <listitem>
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| 119 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 120 | url="http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 121 | </listitem>
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| 122 | <listitem>
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| 123 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 124 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ogdl/"/></para>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </itemizedlist>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | </sect3>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 131 | <title>R</title>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <para><application>R</application> is a language and environment for
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| 134 | statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project similar to the
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| 135 | <application>S</application> language and environment which was developed
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| 136 | at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by
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| 137 | John Chambers and colleagues. <application>R</application> can be
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| 138 | considered as a different implementation of <application>S</application>.
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| 139 | There are some important differences, but much code written for
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| 140 | <application>S</application> runs unaltered under
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| 141 | <application>R</application>. <application>R</application> provides a
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| 142 | wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical
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| 143 | statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...)
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| 144 | and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The
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| 145 | <application>S</application> language is often the vehicle of choice for
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| 146 | research in statistical methodology, and <application>R</application>
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| 147 | provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.</para>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 150 | <listitem>
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| 151 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 152 | url="http://www.r-project.org/"/></para>
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| 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 | <listitem>
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| 155 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 156 | url="http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html"/></para>
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| 157 | </listitem>
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| 160 | </sect3>
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| 162 | </sect2>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | <sect2>
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| 165 | <title>Programming Libraries and Bindings</title>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 168 | <title>Boost</title>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <para><application>Boost</application> provides free peer-reviewed
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| 171 | portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work
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| 172 | well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be
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| 173 | widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programmers across
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| 174 | a broad spectrum of applications, platforms and programming
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| 175 | environments.</para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 178 | <listitem>
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| 179 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 180 | url="http://www.boost.org/"/></para>
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| 181 | </listitem>
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| 182 | <listitem>
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| 183 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 184 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/"/></para>
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| 185 | </listitem>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | </sect3>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 191 | <title>FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West)</title>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <para><application>FFTW</application> is a C subroutine library for
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| 194 | computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions,
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| 195 | of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of
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| 196 | even/odd data, i.e., the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST).</para>
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| 199 | <listitem>
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| 200 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 201 | url="http://www.fftw.org/"/></para>
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| 202 | </listitem>
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| 203 | <listitem>
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| 204 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 205 | url="http://www.fftw.org/download.html"/></para>
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| 206 | </listitem>
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| 207 | </itemizedlist>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | </sect3>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 212 | <title>GOB (GObject Builder)</title>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <para><application>GOB</application> (<application>GOB2</application>
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| 215 | anyway) is a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so that
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| 216 | generated files are not edited. Syntax is inspired by
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| 217 | <application>Java</application> and <application>Yacc</application> or
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| 218 | <application>Lex</application>. The implementation is intentionally kept
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| 219 | simple, and no C actual code parsing is done.</para>
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| 220 |
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| 222 | <listitem>
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| 223 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 224 | url="http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html"/></para>
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| 225 | </listitem>
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| 226 | <listitem>
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| 227 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 228 | url="http://ftp.5z.com/pub/gob/"/></para>
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| 229 | </listitem>
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| 230 | </itemizedlist>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | </sect3>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 235 | <title>GTK+/GNOME Language Bindings (wrappers)</title>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <para><application>GTK+</application>/<application>GNOME</application>
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| 238 | language bindings allow <application>GTK+</application> to be used from
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| 239 | other programming languages, in the style of those languages.</para>
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| 240 |
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| 241 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 244 | url="http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html"/></para>
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| 245 | </listitem>
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| 246 | </itemizedlist>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 249 | <title>gtkmm</title>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <para><application>gtkmm</application> is the official C++ interface
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| 252 | for the popular GUI library <application>GTK+</application>. Highlights
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| 253 | include typesafe callbacks, widgets extensible via inheritance and a
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| 254 | comprehensive set of widgets. You can create user interfaces either in
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| 255 | code or with the Glade designer, using
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| 256 | <application>libglademm</application>.</para>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 260 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 261 | url="http://www.gtkmm.org/"/></para>
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| 262 | </listitem>
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| 263 | <listitem>
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| 264 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 265 | url="http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml"/></para>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </itemizedlist>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | </sect4>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 272 | <title>Java-GNOME</title>
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| 273 |
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| 274 | <para><application>Java-GNOME</application> is a set of Java bindings
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| 275 | for the <application>GNOME</application> and
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| 276 | <application>GTK+</application> libraries that allow
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| 277 | <application>GNOME</application> and <application>GTK+</application>
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| 278 | applications to be written in Java. The
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| 279 | <application>Java-GNOME</application> API has been carefully designed
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| 280 | to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paradigm, yet still wrapping
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| 281 | the entire functionality of the underlying libraries.
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| 282 | <application>Java-GNOME</application> can be used with the
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| 283 | <application>Eclipse</application> development environment and Glade
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| 284 | user interface designer to create applications with ease.</para>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 287 | <listitem>
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| 288 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 289 | url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view"/></para>
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| 290 | </listitem>
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| 291 | <listitem>
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| 292 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 293 | url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/GetJavaGnome#Source_Code"/></para>
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| 294 | </listitem>
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| 295 | </itemizedlist>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | </sect4>
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| 298 |
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| 299 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 300 | <title>gtk2-perl</title>
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| 301 |
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| 302 | <para><application>gtk2-perl</application> is the collective name for
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| 303 | a set of perl bindings for <application>GTK+</application> 2.x and
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| 304 | various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write
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| 305 | <application>GTK</application> and <application>GNOME</application>
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| 306 | applications using a natural, perlish, object-oriented syntax.</para>
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| 307 |
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| 311 | url="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 312 | </listitem>
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| 313 | <listitem>
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| 314 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 315 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl"/></para>
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| 316 | </listitem>
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| 317 | </itemizedlist>
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| 318 |
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| 319 | </sect4>
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| 320 |
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| 321 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 322 | <title>PyGTK</title>
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| 323 |
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| 324 | <para><application>PyGTK</application> provides a convenient wrapper
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| 325 | for the <application>GTK</application> library for use in
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| 326 | <application>Python</application> programs, and takes care of many of
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| 327 | the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When
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| 328 | combined with <application>PyORBit</application> and
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| 329 | <application>gnome-python</application>, it can be used to write full
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| 330 | featured <application>GNOME</application> applications.</para>
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| 331 |
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| 332 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 333 | <listitem>
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| 334 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 335 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/"/></para>
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| 336 | </listitem>
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| 337 | <listitem>
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| 338 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 339 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html"/></para>
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| 340 | </listitem>
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| 341 | </itemizedlist>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | </sect4>
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| 344 |
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| 345 | </sect3>
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| 346 |
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| 347 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 348 | <title>KDE Language Bindings</title>
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| 349 |
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| 350 | <para><application>KDE</application> and most
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| 351 | <application>KDE</application> applications are implemented using the
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| 352 | C++ programming language, however there are number of bindings to other
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| 353 | languages are available. These include scripting languages like
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| 354 | <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application> and
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| 355 | <application>Ruby</application>, and systems programming languages such
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| 356 | as Java and C#.</para>
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| 357 |
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| 360 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 361 | url="http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/"/></para>
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| 362 | </listitem>
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| 364 |
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| 365 | </sect3>
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| 366 |
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| 367 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 368 | <title>Numerical Python (Numpy)</title>
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| 369 |
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| 370 | <para><application>Numerical Python</application> adds a fast array
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| 371 | facility to the <application>Python</application> language.</para>
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| 372 |
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| 373 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 375 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 376 | url="http://numeric.scipy.org/"/></para>
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| 377 | </listitem>
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| 378 | <listitem>
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| 379 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 380 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/"/></para>
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| 381 | </listitem>
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| 384 | </sect3>
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| 385 |
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| 386 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 387 | <title>Perl Scripts and Additional Modules</title>
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| 388 |
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| 389 | <para>There are many <application>Perl</application> scripts and
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| 390 | additional modules located on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
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| 391 | (CPAN) web site. Here you will find
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| 392 | <quote>All Things Perl</quote>.</para>
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| 393 |
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| 396 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 397 | url="http://cpan.org/"/></para>
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| 398 | </listitem>
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| 402 |
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| 404 | <title>SWIG</title>
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| 405 |
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| 406 | <para><application>SWIG</application> is a software development tool
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| 407 | that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level
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| 408 | programming languages. <application>SWIG</application> is used with
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| 409 | different types of languages including common scripting languages such as
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| 410 | <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application>,
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| 411 | <application>Tcl</application>/<application>Tk</application> and
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| 412 | <application>Ruby</application>. The list of supported languages also
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| 413 | includes non-scripting languages such as <application>C#</application>,
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| 414 | <application>Common Lisp</application> (Allegro CL),
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| 415 | <application>Java</application>, <application>Modula-3</application>
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| 416 | and <application>OCAML</application>. Also several interpreted and
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| 417 | compiled Scheme implementations (<application>Chicken</application>,
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| 418 | <application>Guile</application>, <application>MzScheme</application>)
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| 419 | are supported. <application>SWIG</application> is most commonly used to
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| 420 | create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user
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| 421 | interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software.
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| 422 | <application>SWIG</application> can also export its parse tree in the
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| 423 | form of XML and Lisp s-expressions.</para>
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| 424 |
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| 425 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 426 | <listitem>
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| 427 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 428 | url="http://www.swig.org/"/></para>
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| 429 | </listitem>
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| 430 | <listitem>
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| 431 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 432 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/"/></para>
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| 433 | </listitem>
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| 434 | </itemizedlist>
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| 435 |
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| 436 | </sect3>
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| 437 |
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| 438 | </sect2>
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| 439 |
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| 440 | <sect2>
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| 441 | <title>Other Development Tools</title>
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| 442 |
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| 443 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 444 | <title>A-A-P</title>
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| 445 |
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| 446 | <para><application>A-A-P</application> makes it easy to locate, download,
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| 447 | build and install software. It also supports browsing source code,
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| 448 | developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of
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| 449 | software and documentation. This means that
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| 450 | <application> A-A-P</application> is useful both for users and for
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| 451 | developers.</para>
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| 452 |
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| 453 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 454 | <listitem>
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| 455 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 456 | url="http://www.a-a-p.org/index.html"/></para>
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| 457 | </listitem>
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| 458 | <listitem>
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| 459 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 460 | url="http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html"/></para>
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| 461 | </listitem>
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| 462 | </itemizedlist>
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| 463 |
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| 464 | </sect3>
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| 465 |
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| 466 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 467 | <title>cachecc1</title>
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| 468 |
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| 469 | <para><application>cachecc1</application> is a
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| 470 | <application>GCC</application> cache. It can be compared with the well
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| 471 | known <application>ccache</application> package. It has some unique
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| 472 | features including the use of an LD_PRELOADed shared object to catch
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| 473 | invocations to <command>cc1</command>, <command>cc1plus</command> and
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| 474 | <command>as</command>, it transparently supports all build methods, it
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| 475 | can cache <application>GCC</application> bootstraps and it can be
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| 476 | combined with <application>distcc</application> to transparently
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| 477 | distribute compilations.</para>
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| 478 |
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| 479 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 480 | <listitem>
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| 481 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 482 | url="http://cachecc1.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 483 | </listitem>
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| 484 | <listitem>
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| 485 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 486 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cachecc1"/></para>
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| 487 | </listitem>
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| 488 | </itemizedlist>
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| 489 |
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| 490 | </sect3>
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| 491 |
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| 492 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 493 | <title>ccache</title>
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| 494 |
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| 495 | <para><application>ccache</application> is a compiler cache. It acts as
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| 496 | a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the <option>-E</option>
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| 497 | compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied
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| 498 | from cache. This often results in 5 to 10 times faster speeds in common
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| 499 | compilations.</para>
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| 500 |
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| 501 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 502 | <listitem>
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| 503 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 504 | url="http://ccache.samba.org/"/></para>
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| 505 | </listitem>
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| 506 | <listitem>
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| 507 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 508 | url="http://ccache.samba.org/ftp/ccache/"/></para>
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| 509 | </listitem>
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| 510 | </itemizedlist>
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| 511 |
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| 512 | </sect3>
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| 513 |
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| 514 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 515 | <title>DDD (GNU Data Display Debugger)</title>
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| 516 |
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| 517 | <para><application>GNU DDD</application> is a graphical front-end for
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| 518 | command-line debuggers such as <application>GDB</application>,
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| 519 | <application>DBX</application>, <application>WDB</application>,
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| 520 | <application>Ladebug</application>, <application>JDB</application>,
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| 521 | <application>XDB</application>, the <application>Perl</application>
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| 522 | debugger, the <application>Bash</application> debugger, or the
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| 523 | <application>Python</application> debugger. Besides <quote>usual</quote>
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| 524 | front-end features such as viewing source texts,
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| 525 | <application>DDD</application> has an interactive graphical data display,
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| 526 | where data structures are displayed as graphs..</para>
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| 527 |
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| 528 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 529 | <listitem>
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| 530 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 531 | url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/"/></para>
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| 532 | </listitem>
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| 533 | <listitem>
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| 534 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 535 | url="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd/"/></para>
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| 536 | </listitem>
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| 537 | </itemizedlist>
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| 538 |
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| 539 | </sect3>
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| 540 |
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| 541 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 542 | <title>distcc</title>
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| 543 |
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| 544 | <para><application>distcc</application> is a program to distribute builds
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| 545 | of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a
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| 546 | network. <application>distcc</application> should always generate the
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| 547 | same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is
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| 548 | usually much faster than a local compile.
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| 549 | <application>distcc</application> does not require all machines to share
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| 550 | a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or
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| 551 | header files installed. They can even have different processors or
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| 552 | operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.</para>
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| 553 |
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| 554 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 555 | <listitem>
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| 556 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 557 | url="http://distcc.samba.org/"/></para>
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| 558 | </listitem>
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| 559 | <listitem>
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| 560 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 561 | url="http://distcc.samba.org/download.html"/></para>
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| 562 | </listitem>
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| 563 | </itemizedlist>
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| 564 |
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| 565 | </sect3>
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| 566 |
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| 567 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 568 | <title>GDB (GNU Debugger)</title>
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| 569 |
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| 570 | <para><application>GDB</application> is the GNU Project debugger. It
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| 571 | allows you to see what is going on <quote>inside</quote> another program
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| 572 | while it executes. It also allows you to see what another program was
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| 573 | doing at the moment it crashed.</para>
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| 574 |
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| 575 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 576 | <listitem>
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| 577 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
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| 578 | url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"/></para>
|
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| 579 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 580 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 581 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
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| 582 | url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 583 | </listitem>
|
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| 584 | </itemizedlist>
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| 585 |
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| 586 | </sect3>
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| 587 |
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| 588 | <sect3 role="package">
|
|---|
| 589 | <title>gocache (GNU Object Cache)</title>
|
|---|
| 590 |
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|---|
| 591 | <para><application>ccache</application> is a clone of
|
|---|
| 592 | <application>ccache</application>, with the goal of supporting
|
|---|
| 593 | compilers other than <application>GCC</application> and adding additional
|
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| 594 | features. Embedded compilers will especially be in focus.</para>
|
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| 595 |
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|---|
| 596 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
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| 597 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 598 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
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| 599 | url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gocache/"/></para>
|
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| 600 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 601 | <listitem>
|
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| 602 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
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| 603 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gocache/"/></para>
|
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| 604 | </listitem>
|
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| 605 | </itemizedlist>
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| 606 |
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| 607 | </sect3>
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| 608 |
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| 609 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 610 | <title>OProfile</title>
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| 611 |
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|---|
| 612 | <para><application>OProfile</application> is a system-wide profiler for
|
|---|
| 613 | Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead.
|
|---|
| 614 | <application>OProfile</application> is released under the GNU GPL. It
|
|---|
| 615 | consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting sample data, and
|
|---|
| 616 | several post-profiling tools for turning data into information.
|
|---|
| 617 | <application>OProfile</application> leverages the hardware performance
|
|---|
| 618 | counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting
|
|---|
| 619 | statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent profiling. All
|
|---|
| 620 | code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel
|
|---|
| 621 | modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and applications.
|
|---|
| 622 | <application>OProfile</application> is currently in alpha status; however
|
|---|
| 623 | it has proven stable over a large number of differing configurations. It
|
|---|
| 624 | is being used on machines ranging from laptops to 16-way NUMA-Q
|
|---|
| 625 | boxes.</para>
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| 626 |
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| 627 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
|---|
| 628 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 629 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
|---|
| 630 | url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 631 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 632 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 633 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
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| 634 | url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/download/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 635 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 636 | </itemizedlist>
|
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| 637 |
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| 638 | </sect3>
|
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| 639 |
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| 640 | <sect3 role="package">
|
|---|
| 641 | <title>SCons</title>
|
|---|
| 642 |
|
|---|
| 643 | <para><application>SCons</application> is an Open Source software
|
|---|
| 644 | construction tool, i.e, a next-generation build tool. Think of
|
|---|
| 645 | <application>SCons</application> as an improved, cross-platform
|
|---|
| 646 | substitute for the classic <command>make</command> utility with
|
|---|
| 647 | integrated functionality similar to
|
|---|
| 648 | <application>Autoconf</application>/<application>Automake</application>
|
|---|
| 649 | and compiler caches such as <command>ccache</command>.</para>
|
|---|
| 650 |
|
|---|
| 651 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
|---|
| 652 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 653 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
|---|
| 654 | url="http://scons.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 655 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 656 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 657 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
|---|
| 658 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 659 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 660 | </itemizedlist>
|
|---|
| 661 |
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| 662 | </sect3>
|
|---|
| 663 |
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|---|
| 664 | <sect3 role="package">
|
|---|
| 665 | <title>strace</title>
|
|---|
| 666 |
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|---|
| 667 | <para><application>strace</application> is a system call tracer, i.e., a
|
|---|
| 668 | debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by
|
|---|
| 669 | another process or program.</para>
|
|---|
| 670 |
|
|---|
| 671 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
|---|
| 672 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 673 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
|---|
| 674 | url="http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/strace/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 675 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 676 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 677 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
|---|
| 678 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 679 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 680 | </itemizedlist>
|
|---|
| 681 |
|
|---|
| 682 | </sect3>
|
|---|
| 683 |
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| 684 | <sect3 role="package">
|
|---|
| 685 | <title>Valgrind</title>
|
|---|
| 686 |
|
|---|
| 687 | <para><application>Valgrind</application> is a collection of five tools:
|
|---|
| 688 | two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and
|
|---|
| 689 | a heap profiler used for debugging and profiling Linux programs. Features
|
|---|
| 690 | include automatic detection of many memory management and threading bugs
|
|---|
| 691 | as well as detailed profiling to speed up and reduce memory use of your
|
|---|
| 692 | programs.</para>
|
|---|
| 693 |
|
|---|
| 694 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
|---|
| 695 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 696 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
|
|---|
| 697 | url="http://valgrind.org/"/></para>
|
|---|
| 698 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 699 | <listitem>
|
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| 700 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
|
|---|
| 701 | url="http://valgrind.org/downloads/source_code.html"/></para>
|
|---|
| 702 | </listitem>
|
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| 703 | </itemizedlist>
|
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| 704 |
|
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| 705 | </sect3>
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| 706 |
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| 707 | </sect2>
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| 708 |
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| 709 | </sect1>
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