[Environment Setup 9] Build GNU Scientific Library using Make

After learning how building programs from source code works in Linux, let’s try it in action for a real case. In this video, we build GNU Scientific Library (GSL) as an example for configuring and building scientific libraries, and then, we create and compile a simple program that utilizes the ease-of-use of GSL to compute the Bessel function of a value.

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Topics covered:
🎯 Configuring downloaded source codes using configure script
🎯 Building GSL into a standalone library file using GNU Make
🎯 Building a simple scientific program to compute Bessel function (concept of -I switch)
🎯 Linking the compiled program to GSL library (concept of -L switch)
🎯 Difference between static and shared libraries
🎯 Configuring the system to find shared libraries for programs at runtime (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Links:
GSL usage documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/...

Lecturer: Mojtaba Barzegari https://mbarzegary.github.io/

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