1.3 Installing Scilab. System Requirements

Scilab is distributed in source code format; binaries for Windows95/NT systems and several popular Unix/Linux-XWindow systems are also available: Dec Alpha (OSF V4), Dec Mips (ULTRIX 4.2), Sun Sparc stations (Sun OS), Sun Sparc stations (Sun Solaris), HP9000 (HP-UX V10), SGI Mips Irix, PC Linux. All of these binaries versions include tk/tcl interface.

The installation requirements are the following :

- for the source version: Scilab requires approximately 130Mb of disk storage to unpack and install (all sources included). You need X Window (X11R4, X11R5 or X11R6, C compiler and Fortran compiler (e.g. f2c or g77 or Visual C++ for Windows systems). - for the binary version: the minimum for running Scilab (without sources) is about 40 Mb when decompressed. These versions are partially statically linked and in principle do not require a fortran compiler.

 Scilab uses a large internal stack for its calculations. This size of this stack can be reduced or enlarged by the stacksize . command. The default dimension of the internal stack can be adapted by modifying the variable newstacksize in the scilab.star script.

- For more information on the installation, please look at the README files