Compilers and linkers

Compilers

• Gnu compilers : gcc, gfortran
• Clang
• intel free compilers (icc, ifort,...)

Installing

• Gnu Make
• Cmake
• imake

Version Control

• Subversion
• Bazaar
• CVS

Make

• on a multiprocessor or multicore machine, using make -j<n> uses n parallels processes for building objects which speeds up considerably the compilation.

Makedepend

• in order to list dependencies of headers to the std library in c++, one rather uses an equivalent of the old makedepend command provided by the compiler. For instance, gcc offers the gccmakedep command.